I started crying when he talked about the worst thing in your life and saying yes to it and no longer letting it take away my happiness. Wow, I didn’t realize the bad situations only have power of us if we let it. Thank u 💕
@@john-carlosynostroza i feel horrible after my spiritual awakening i used to do trascendental meditation, this type of meditation that take you to other dimensions, it feels good when you feel like the Universe and you are in those higher frequencies being the creator of my own reality feeling enthusiastic, but something pull me put of it and i feel like all my work is lost, like if i lost my spark, I dont even feel any emotions anymore. I am so numb :( I guess i have to accept the feeling of feeling nothing? i dont like it, i wanna feel something. is feeling nothing an objective circumstance as well?
I did this meditation 3 days ago and it shifted my experience of life permanently. I've meditated for 3 years and this changed it all. It made me realize that trying to achieve something was the one thing holding me back. I still feel some resistance in my body but i'm not identified with it. It all feels very easy. Thank you Rupert.
Really ?? I can't let go my health problem related to anxiety I work on it since more than a year but it annoys me although I has been started to get better (constant urge to pee with no medical problem at all, came after traumatic event) How are you now? Did Ruppert's video really changed your life, I mean can you allow everything in your life now and do you feel peace and even happiness within you whatever the circumstances of your life are? It seems kinda irrealistic to me, or a lot of work or I don't know...please talk about your experience, what did you do along the way?
@@Alix777. yes, i understand you very well. I suffered with anxiety and panic attacks for years. Your thoughts are causing your suffering. The urge to pee without need is psychosomatic reaction to your anxiety. So in fact you are unconsciously choosing to suffer in this moment by being occupied completely by your mind. But i have some good news for you my friend. You have already awakened to this path. Otherwise you wouldn't be commenting under this video like you did. Just let everything go now. Just let everything is as it is. Don't resist the present moment. It's insane to resist the only thing that ever exists in life. Surrender to whatever you feel now. Surrender like it would be there forever. (Nothing lasts forever everything is constantly changing but your surrender has to be complete) Don't surrender by your mind. Surrender with your whole being. The light is always shining within you. Even when it's seemingly obscured by your thoughts. I or Rupert or anyone else has nothing more or less than you do. We are all the same. So yes, it is possible for you. I wish you the best. 🙏
@@Alix777. You need to suffer enough to gain the motivation to let go. That's what happened to me. I had no other choice than to just be with my fears and watch them.
@@Tazka i feel horrible after my spiritual awakening i used to do trascendental meditation, this type of meditation that take you to other dimensions, it feels good when you feel like the Universe and you are in those higher frequencies being the creator of my own reality, but something pull me put of it and i feel worst. I dont even feel any emotions anymore.
@@alondraacosta-mora6504 Hi, it's very common trap on this path to cling to our spiritual experiences. Never attach yourself in to any experience, no matter how good it feels. Just let everything be as it is. You can never reach any past spiritual experience again by clinging on to them and trying to make it come back. It's just a memory, by trying to make this moment in to some other than it is, is resistance to life itself. It's insane. Why would you want something to be different from what it is right now? Why can't you just take life as it is? Who is the one that is resisting your experience right now at this moment? Who is the one that has problem with what is currently present? Could it be just a thought that you take to be as yourself? It's a inner conflict with having a thought that says no to what is, the problem is not the thought but the fact that you identify with your thoughts. You are the one aware of both this moment and the thought. And they both arise from you. You are the space in which your experience is happening. No matter if you feel good or bad, it doesn't change the fact that you are infinite awareness in which everything happens. It includes both good and bad. Just rest as awareness and completely allow yourself to feel whatever you feel. If you don't feel anything allow yourself to not feel anything. Be interested about your suffering. Try to get to know what it is made of.
@@mja4752 Every phrase that has never been spoken that comes to life shines new light on what has never changed. The more light that shines, the more clear the unchangeable can be seen. One can call the unchangeable God, but the unchangeable is not dependent on language.
Hope you don't need his love or need him to make you happy isn't that what he just warned us against turn your partner and tell him you don't need them that's the best thing you could tell your partner you leave them of the pressure of thinking they have to love you?
After many years of being interested in meditation the experience of not resisiting and saying yes has finally clicked. It has been the single most important revelation for me in attaining lasting happiness and peace. I have transformed so much as a person it is unbelievable. Thank you Rupert for explaining this so clearly.
How can accept my health problem which is not severe but it's just annoying sometimes painful since a year and a half I always have pressure in my bladder with constant urge to pee sensation it's anxiety related doctors said, and I know it know, it gets better but I need to be careful of what I'm eating or it gets worse for a few days, I can't drink alcohol anymore with friends, my difficulty is that I feel I can't totally accept it.
Rupert is the lost jewel among the great masters, his impact has not been much in line with his deep and direct teaching. I have not seen much material from him, my English is limited and he uses more complex language than other spiritual teachers I listen to. But these days that I have had a deep confusion about human love, I have chosen to watch Krisnamurti's documentary to look for answers, answers that, he himself points out, he does not have, but each one has it in himself. His teachings are also extraordinary, one of my favorites for the directness and no possibilities that it leaves us to escape the truth. At the end of the documentary, I had recommended Ruper's video, and I was struck by the title: "Nothing Can Make You Happy" I have seen only the first 3 minutes I have needed to stop, I have seen his pointing for a long time in other teachers, but today, it has been, how Rupert knows how to do it, direct and accurate with so few words, and it has made me need to pause the video. My life experience, to this day makes me feel that I have had my heart broken for too many years, and tears of frustration come to my eyes a bit for not feeling that happiness in me and knowing that what I feel when loving another human being is the The most wonderful experience I have ever had, the greatest happiness I have ever experienced, and it is a fucking fantasy of the mental ego, so I have never felt true happiness?
Imagine! We Indians grew up listening to such discourses on a daily basis since childhood. India is truly spiritually super rich! Thanks to people who have learnt from India and translating it
@@sharmcity3345 sadly we have forgotten this message of spirtuality in india in punjab especially the sikh religion has turned into a montheistic faith before it was more panentheistic like what robert spira is talking about
How to say "YES" to barbaric acts practiced by bad people to ourselves or to members of our family and friends ? How to say YES to injustice ? How to say YES to rape, bullying, robbers ? Is it right to agree and accept torture, invasion from another Country ? Is it wrong to fight for social justice and against corruption ? Will us accept everything peacefully ?
Plus I think a specification should be made, where "I don't need you" actually means "I am not with you because I need to, but because I want and choose to" Now this is a huge compliment and the assurance Ruperts speaks about.
Yes you're correct except for the specification when you tell your partner you don't need them you shouldn't specify anything let them discover the specification for themselves of course you'll probably be divorced by then but at least they'll eventually get it
I see whatever Rupert is saying is a pointer. You may communicate this in your own way. Or may not even have to say anything. Your partner and your relationship flourishes beautifully whenever you approach it and act it as described by Rupert. The demand we put on our partner to make them is unfair to them. It's an unbearable burden for anyone to carry.
@@AndreasDelleske drop everything mentally by continuously wondering " who am I". And when an answer comes ask "who am i that is aware of that answer" and like this keep observing who is yourself
This reminded me of Dostoevsky writing about life in a gulag where everyone was always freezing cold, starving, dirty and overworked. So very miserable. There was a fellow prisoner who used to say “we are so lucky!” He was happy they had the opportunity to pay for their sins and therefore be free before God. It is the fact of his acceptance of intolerable conditions that seems to exemplify Rupert’s discussion.
‘Life is full of Joy And Woe, When this we do really know, Happily through the world we go...’ Same author, saying something essentially the same, and v apt. Here!
I adore your wisdom Rupbert. You are such a gift to humanity. Stillness is so important for the world. Your words resonate so deeply, as does this passage I came across.
Would you elaborate on that comment happiness is before the experience how do we know for sure because if you're happy that's the experience how can they experience come before the experience I gots to know
I am 32, First time I am listening to this voice & first time watching the blinking of his eyes. I learned our suffering is our own responsibility and happens when I say no to current situation. Crystal clear. Thanks a lot
Brilliant. Accept everything. Resist nothing.Happiness precedes experience. An experience or object has no power to make us happy or unhappy unless we choose to. A brilliant exposition.
Once walking to learn transcendental meditation at a location. I was over come by the flowers and sunshine. I completely lost myself in the MOMENT and I was completely at peace and happy. It was an momentary experience but one I still remember some 33 years later. Home is where your heart is
Elvis Presley new home is where the heart is he recorded the song about home and the heart in the movie kid Galahad... He's walking with his girl whom he doesn't need for his happiness and she knows it look how happy they are together I believe she's wearing a yellow dress and he's wearing a dark suit he was quite successful as a boxer in this movie like Muhammad Ali... Now I got to find this movie and this song it's a very beautiful song he sings it just right
Wow our open or closed being (heart) is the key to all our happiness or sadness. As a child when we were open to everything and everyone we were the happiest. "Unless you become as a child you cannot see the kingdom" (Jesus)
Honestly, I've been very down ...letting external circumstances be my undoing. But your advice, about accepting what is, may just save my sorry self from a hellish place. Thanks!
@@notthrowinawaymyshot824 I'm doing better acceptance and gratitude is almost a necessity at this point if I want to keep my wits about me. I've never been in a situation where I couldn't resolve the impediment... except for now. I've never been so scared. Faith is the only option
@@rsher_digital-art Yes I know how it is. At different times in my life I have had anxiety and depression. Working out helps - even just walking outside daily. 1st thing in the morning I practice mindful meditation and breathing and remember that everything is actually OK in this very moment. The moment is the key for me. Keep the faith!
@@rsher_digital-artAll mental constructs "fear" especially are ego based and have nothing to do with our essential selves which is the only true source of peace.
Chasing after something implies that you do not currently have that something. Money, happiness, bliss, joy, peace, abundance... I AM abundance, I AM peace, I AM joy, I AM!
That is the best thing I have ever heard about happiness. I don't regret that I am only allowed to understand it in mid-life, although I would have liked to understand it as a child. You give me the happiness to pass this teaching on to my children. Thank you so much!
I cannot find the right words . I shall take back the bliss inside me, wanting to share my happiness with someone I once felt deceived by and now, many years later have got in contact with again !!! This must be my opportunity to do it right Sharing love instead of wanting it !❤❤❤🎉
Yet we cry way more. We are actually children lol, not happiness? Sometimes we experience a lot OF IT, sometimes we dont. Doesnt mean we literally are it. Am I right? Are you saying that a child is made of happiness, but an adult is not?
Everything is what we allow...we are the problem and solution to everything Unconditional love and kindness and brutal honesty are needed to deal with all these issues in the video
We can feel joy and be joy in then presence of our infinite self which is love. When our soul awakens to it's true identity, there is pure joy in trusting beyond what our physical sees might perceive in every given moment. There is nothing external that can fill what is already complete. Letting go of how we think things should be and allowing the Holy Flow to move through us, creates the perfection of joy unfolding.
Nothing material has ever made me “happy” . True happinesses is peace and knowing I am in doing what I came to do on earth. Now that is another subject. I was the happiest when I was volunteering and helping others, but even that can be a temporary happiness..
I paused the video and asked myself "what do I need to do to be happy.. " and I answered myself that I need to be with myself.. again another thought came up saying... "I need to be with the source of happiness so that I can be ever happy..." again another thought followed perhaps as an answer to my previous thought saying... "the source of the happiness is YOU"
I realized this over a year ago & lived ever so fully! But slowly forgot this realization & fell back into depression, frustration & apathy. Until a few days ago I realized I’ve been looking for happiness all this time which implies/confirms/is me admitting that I’m unhappy. If I simply cease to look for happiness then I’m implying the opposite. Meaning if I was happy would I search for happiness? 😎
It is more a confirmation of happiness in being, which is always there, than a search for happiness. Whatever is there, I do not need to search for, but only confirm by repeated perception.
"To experience continuous peace and happiness is to say 'yes' to our current circumstances. And 'yes' is a choice we make moment to moment." It is as simple and as hard as that.
We open ourselves to it and surrender resistance. Then the yes comes in. Choice implies awareness, so it is a choice to open up to something we would normally close down to.
Matt T do it one time and tell us your experience. Im pretty sure you will be miserable. But “jokes” aside, there is only this moment so say yes eternally in this moment which we experience as series of many moments. Saying “yes” In one moment equals saying yes in all in a sense.
Happiness is what you ARE. Not something you find. The very Search for happiness is keeping you away from beeing yourself aka happiness. Just be, and rest in the infinite ocean of consciousness aka happiness where love, truth and beauty resides.
We are born in a state of happiness as babies and children. The so called civilising process of our corrupt society slowly hibernates this happiness. Its alway there like a child whispering for its parent or friend. To return to this childlike state is to know the Love of God!!!!
@@jammasterj13 "Hibernates this happiness." I like that way of stating it because that accurately encapsulates the process. Rupert uses another term yet I can't think of it just now, something on the order of "obscuring" our natural Awareness when the egoic state emerges and comes to dominate.
Having gratitude plays a big part of being happy. Being ungrateful of what we have and envious of others who have more will only bring boatload of stress, anger, frustration, and unhappiness onto ourselves.
It's not about wanting to change or accept this world and what goes on in it. It is about turning the mind back into the source and allowing the world to disappear.
🤯 as a westerner exploring eastern spirituality this is simple explanation has made me reach a new pinnacle of understanding. After listening to this you really feel so light like you're welling up on the inside and could just float away.
Eternal Supreme Peace is what I've searched for & wanted (without even knowing it yet).! Now I know that is what I've always wanted & looked for.! Eternal Supreme Peace is beyond all states & experiences 🙂 Thank You sooo much Thank You
Whatever has the power to make you happy also has the power to make you unhappy but in either case, it is 'I' that has inadvertently given it this power. Enjoy it while it lasts.
There will be a time when you do not listen music just only by ears , you do not see things with just your eyes only , you do not feel by just your senses only. What is happening outside is happening inside of you, you can not separate it. There are no boundaries. There is just One...this Oneness is love.
This helped so much! I have been so stuck in resistance and suffering as a result of my attachment to certain outcomes. I feel this talk freeing me up. Thanks Rupert for this talk
It cannot be found because it cannot be lost?.... Okay but would it be nice to find a 1962 Corvette convertible with a billion dollars of gold in the trunk.. a gorgeous babe asking for a ride to Paradise?
I'm completely new to this so I assume many of you will disagree about what am I going to say. Anyway, while I find this fascinating and true to some extent it gets me thinking - what is the point of chasing anything material in life then if we could simply feel happy all the time because we are not dependent on money/luxury/relationships to feel happy? It seems to me like we would stop in one place and never improve as a mankind if we would give up on trying to chase the happiness. It feels like double-edged sword, while we do find happiness within us and realise that we don't need anything else around us to make us happy, that also means that we stop chasing any kind of achievements or improvements in our lives.
Thank you for this wisdom. I sit here now with the start of a cold and I have three major events and travel coming up, but facing and accepting and saying "yes" to all of it really helps! Peace from this will heal body and soul. Flow of energy, thank you!
It is obvious that misery started somewhere. Anything that starts we know from our experience that it ends. But it takes some awakening some waking up ourselves by someone that is himself happiness . There are no words to explain or express the gratitude of the heart except the love and never ending thank youse . To my beloved master and true friend in the eternal journey of happiness.🙏
For me THE MOST DIFFICULT AND BRILLIANT of all Rupert's meditations I've heard. I had to listen to it for many times... and finally reilised what it means. Thank You Rupert!!!
"No one can impose suffering on us". Meaning that Putin can't impose suffering on Ukrainians - it is the Ukrainians who do it to themselves by getting upset by their children being savagely murdered by Russian rockets?
There's a big Paradox about life; Even though we must accept that 'nothing can make us happier,' and accept what is, we are constantly striving to achieve more, change things and make life better for ourselves and for the people around us.
Thank you Rupert for making this meditation available through RUclips. Your stile and choice of words resonate with me very much and helps me answer questions that I had but I didn't had satisfying answers to. And also helped me to answers on questions that I was in the process of forming. I'm glad that our path met in this period of my life where I'm able to absorb your teachings and incorporate them in my daily life. Greetings form Amsterdam.
Rupert, you are an authentic and honourable countryman, but if I said ‘I love you, but I do not need you’ to my wife (around 18.41 mins), I may be homeless by nightfall.
Amit Sen I don’t where you are from, but being homeless on a London street, is not something to aspire to. There is nothing gracious and enlightening about being homeless. No one should have to experience it. Unfortunately, many do. 🙏
I think if I said to my wife 'you fulfill a need in me' she may also consider throwing me out since dependency is not the same as freely given love. It's the way the phrase is understood. Some people understand need as love as joy as bliss and have not looked deeply into the terms. And thus of course 'I don't need you' is now understood as a break up speech in modern idiom. Shame how words devolve really.
@@NigelHyphenJones Sorry for making assumptions about the severity of your social/living situation. It sounds really stressful to be that dependant. I wish you all the best.
WOW! Such divine depth, crystal clarity, boundless joy. Sincere gratitude Rupert, thank you kindly for the sharing of such wisdom. Perfect bliss expanding continuously internally externally eternally ❤🙏❤
nothing can be viewed as no- thing which helps in understanding because a thing is an object. In other words, no thing can make you happy because you are no-body. I also loved how you mentioned the empty space in the room that is just is. It reminds me of Eckhart Tolle's quote Everybody pays attention to the things in space but who pays attention to space itself? The light in me recognises the light in you.
I am not stained; nothing I experience can stain me. May all of us who were taught we were born with original sin be liberated with the truth of our eternal purity and innocence.
Saying “yes” to all one’s experiences is, in religious terms, accepting God’s will in all its manifestations.
I started crying when he talked about the worst thing in your life and saying yes to it and no longer letting it take away my happiness. Wow, I didn’t realize the bad situations only have power of us if we let it. Thank u 💕
Kat VanGunten so did i
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You are loved
Me too. it was super intense and the first time I've ever truly put myself on the line like that. Man, it hurt but how beautiful.
@@john-carlosynostroza i feel horrible after my spiritual awakening i used to do trascendental meditation, this type of meditation that take you to other dimensions, it feels good when you feel like the Universe and you are in those higher frequencies being the creator of my own reality feeling enthusiastic, but something pull me put of it and i feel like all my work is lost, like if i lost my spark, I dont even feel any emotions anymore. I am so numb :( I guess i have to accept the feeling of feeling nothing? i dont like it, i wanna feel something. is feeling nothing an objective circumstance as well?
I did this meditation 3 days ago and it shifted my experience of life permanently. I've meditated for 3 years and this changed it all. It made me realize that trying to achieve something was the one thing holding me back. I still feel some resistance in my body but i'm not identified with it. It all feels very easy. Thank you Rupert.
Really ?? I can't let go my health problem related to anxiety I work on it since more than a year but it annoys me although I has been started to get better (constant urge to pee with no medical problem at all, came after traumatic event) How are you now? Did Ruppert's video really changed your life, I mean can you allow everything in your life now and do you feel peace and even happiness within you whatever the circumstances of your life are? It seems kinda irrealistic to me, or a lot of work or I don't know...please talk about your experience, what did you do along the way?
@@Alix777. yes, i understand you very well. I suffered with anxiety and panic attacks for years. Your thoughts are causing your suffering. The urge to pee without need is psychosomatic reaction to your anxiety. So in fact you are unconsciously choosing to suffer in this moment by being occupied completely by your mind. But i have some good news for you my friend. You have already awakened to this path. Otherwise you wouldn't be commenting under this video like you did. Just let everything go now. Just let everything is as it is. Don't resist the present moment. It's insane to resist the only thing that ever exists in life. Surrender to whatever you feel now. Surrender like it would be there forever. (Nothing lasts forever everything is constantly changing but your surrender has to be complete) Don't surrender by your mind. Surrender with your whole being. The light is always shining within you. Even when it's seemingly obscured by your thoughts. I or Rupert or anyone else has nothing more or less than you do. We are all the same. So yes, it is possible for you. I wish you the best. 🙏
@@Alix777. You need to suffer enough to gain the motivation to let go. That's what happened to me. I had no other choice than to just be with my fears and watch them.
@@Tazka i feel horrible after my spiritual awakening i used to do trascendental meditation, this type of meditation that take you to other dimensions, it feels good when you feel like the Universe and you are in those higher frequencies being the creator of my own reality, but something pull me put of it and i feel worst. I dont even feel any emotions anymore.
@@alondraacosta-mora6504 Hi, it's very common trap on this path to cling to our spiritual experiences.
Never attach yourself in to any experience, no matter how good it feels. Just let everything be as it is. You can never reach any past spiritual experience again by clinging on to them and trying to make it come back. It's just a memory, by trying to make this moment in to some other than it is, is resistance to life itself. It's insane.
Why would you want something to be different from what it is right now? Why can't you just take life as it is? Who is the one that is resisting your experience right now at this moment? Who is the one that has problem with what is currently present? Could it be just a thought that you take to be as yourself?
It's a inner conflict with having a thought that says no to what is, the problem is not the thought but the fact that you identify with your thoughts. You are the one aware of both this moment and the thought. And they both arise from you. You are the space in which your experience is happening. No matter if you feel good or bad, it doesn't change the fact that you are infinite awareness in which everything happens. It includes both good and bad. Just rest as awareness and completely allow yourself to feel whatever you feel. If you don't feel anything allow yourself to not feel anything. Be interested about your suffering. Try to get to know what it is made of.
Every phrase uttered from your mouth is like a gem from the mind of God. And my heart is over joyed.
God plays 'hide and seek' (and finally found) in 'our' minds🧡👍
The power of words is often overlooked by those who think ideas aren't real while the hologram is. It is the inversion of reality.
there is no god and these are not his own words but a 2500 years old knowledge -nothing new here
@@mja4752 Every phrase that has never been spoken that comes to life shines new light on what has never changed. The more light that shines, the more clear the unchangeable can be seen. One can call the unchangeable God, but the unchangeable is not dependent on language.
Stevie Wonder recorded a song about being overjoyed
Rupart is one of the sweetest and Wisest soul on planet earth ❤
It's Ruprecht.
Wowwwww. This guy really cuts to the heart of the matter, he's very good at formulating words in the right combination to make it click.
He is absolutely brilliant and pure and awake
Right??! Bam!
Wisdom personified!
Hope you don't need his love or need him to make you happy isn't that what he just warned us against turn your partner and tell him you don't need them that's the best thing you could tell your partner you leave them of the pressure of thinking they have to love you?
@@thomasnorman951 I'm not sure what you're trying to say
After many years of being interested in meditation the experience of not resisiting and saying yes has finally clicked. It has been the single most important revelation for me in attaining lasting happiness and peace. I have transformed so much as a person it is unbelievable. Thank you Rupert for explaining this so clearly.
Agreed
as a person?? hehe
How can accept my health problem which is not severe but it's just annoying sometimes painful since a year and a half I always have pressure in my bladder with constant urge to pee sensation it's anxiety related doctors said, and I know it know, it gets better but I need to be careful of what I'm eating or it gets worse for a few days, I can't drink alcohol anymore with friends, my difficulty is that I feel I can't totally accept it.
As a person.....the only blasphemy???
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@@Alix777. You are still missing the point rupert trying to make.
Rupert is the lost jewel among the great masters, his impact has not been much in line with his deep and direct teaching. I have not seen much material from him, my English is limited and he uses more complex language than other spiritual teachers I listen to. But these days that I have had a deep confusion about human love, I have chosen to watch Krisnamurti's documentary to look for answers, answers that, he himself points out, he does not have, but each one has it in himself.
His teachings are also extraordinary, one of my favorites for the directness and no possibilities that it leaves us to escape the truth.
At the end of the documentary, I had recommended Ruper's video, and I was struck by the title: "Nothing Can Make You Happy"
I have seen only the first 3 minutes I have needed to stop, I have seen his pointing for a long time in other teachers, but today, it has been, how Rupert knows how to do it, direct and accurate with so few words, and it has made me need to pause the video.
My life experience, to this day makes me feel that I have had my heart broken for too many years, and tears of frustration come to my eyes a bit for not feeling that happiness in me and knowing that what I feel when loving another human being is the The most wonderful experience I have ever had, the greatest happiness I have ever experienced, and it is a fucking fantasy of the mental ego, so I have never felt true happiness?
The best message I have heard in 60 years!
Imagine! We Indians grew up listening to such discourses on a daily basis since childhood. India is truly spiritually super rich! Thanks to people who have learnt from India and translating it
@@vishalkulkarni5502lol what a massive over generalization and total lack of self awareness or humility.
@@sharmcity3345 sadly we have forgotten this message of spirtuality in india in punjab especially the sikh religion has turned into a montheistic faith before it was more panentheistic like what robert spira is talking about
How to say "YES" to barbaric acts practiced by bad people to ourselves or to members of our family and friends ? How to say YES to injustice ? How to say YES to rape, bullying, robbers ? Is it right to agree and accept torture, invasion from another Country ? Is it wrong to fight for social justice and against corruption ? Will us accept everything peacefully ?
As someone who struggles with being alone all the time, this really helps me.
Plus I think a specification should be made, where "I don't need you" actually means "I am not with you because I need to, but because I want and choose to" Now this is a huge compliment and the assurance Ruperts speaks about.
Yes you're correct except for the specification when you tell your partner you don't need them you shouldn't specify anything let them discover the specification for themselves of course you'll probably be divorced by then but at least they'll eventually get it
I see whatever Rupert is saying is a pointer. You may communicate this in your own way. Or may not even have to say anything. Your partner and your relationship flourishes beautifully whenever you approach it and act it as described by Rupert. The demand we put on our partner to make them is unfair to them. It's an unbearable burden for anyone to carry.
Nothing can make you happy, until NOTHING can make you happy :-)
Claudia Petri YES :)
By this you make it into a thing. And you're lost again.
@@kaysalshaar You still have to know what to drop.. not your pants for example.
@@AndreasDelleske drop everything mentally by continuously wondering " who am I". And when an answer comes ask "who am i that is aware of that answer" and like this keep observing who is yourself
All perspectives are valid. Thank you for your share.
This reminded me of Dostoevsky writing about life in a gulag where everyone was always freezing cold, starving, dirty and overworked. So very miserable. There was a fellow prisoner who used to say “we are so lucky!” He was happy they had the opportunity to pay for their sins and therefore be free before God. It is the fact of his acceptance of intolerable conditions that seems to exemplify Rupert’s discussion.
Meditation is a saying yes to the universe. The space that we occupy doesn't negotiate our occupancy. It is our true nature to say yes to everything.
William Blake's poem:
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
pedestrian
The best truths are the simple truths.
‘Life is full of Joy And Woe,
When this we do really know,
Happily through the world we go...’
Same author, saying something essentially the same, and v apt. Here!
That lifted me and I'm not sure why
The Unbound are not bound to the ground
This is Your Best One. The only Video that you need for your entire life
I adore your wisdom Rupbert. You are such a gift to humanity. Stillness is so important for the world. Your words resonate so deeply, as does this passage I came across.
That's not his wisdom, there is no "he" it's your wisdom because there is only you exist🤗❤🙏
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"Our innate happiness is prior to experience, it is never the result of experience."
Would you elaborate on that comment happiness is before the experience how do we know for sure because if you're happy that's the experience how can they experience come before the experience I gots to know
the freedom of leading a life when you know that your happiness is not dependent on anyone or anything♥💓 this is what Ive been waiting for!!
Life transforming words Rupert. Its like coming home, the home that we never left. Thank you, thank you, thank you !!
I am 32, First time I am listening to this voice & first time watching the blinking of his eyes. I learned our suffering is our own responsibility and happens when I say no to current situation.
Crystal clear.
Thanks a lot
Brilliant. Accept everything. Resist nothing.Happiness precedes experience. An experience or object has no power to make us happy or unhappy unless we choose to. A brilliant exposition.
If there is one thing that can be placed above the desire of happiness, it's the desire of not suffering, reducing or ceasing suffering.
Once walking to learn transcendental meditation at a location. I was over come by the flowers and sunshine. I completely lost myself in the MOMENT and I was completely at peace and happy. It was an momentary experience but one I still remember some 33 years later. Home is where your heart is
Nice memory.
Elvis Presley new home is where the heart is he recorded the song about home and the heart in the movie kid Galahad... He's walking with his girl whom he doesn't need for his happiness and she knows it look how happy they are together I believe she's wearing a yellow dress and he's wearing a dark suit he was quite successful as a boxer in this movie like Muhammad Ali... Now I got to find this movie and this song it's a very beautiful song he sings it just right
happiness is everywhere except in wanting it.
I like it.
Wow our open or closed being (heart) is the key to all our happiness or sadness. As a child when we were open to everything and everyone we were the happiest. "Unless you become as a child you cannot see the kingdom" (Jesus)
This is one of the most profoundly beautiful and truthful things I have ever heard.
Honestly, I've been very down ...letting external circumstances be my undoing. But your advice, about accepting what is, may just save my sorry self from a hellish place. Thanks!
how are you doing now Richard Sher?
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I'm doing better acceptance and gratitude is almost a necessity at this point if I want to keep my wits about me.
I've never been in a situation where I couldn't resolve the impediment... except for now.
I've never been so scared.
Faith is the only option
@@notthrowinawaymyshot824 better, thank you.
@@rsher_digital-art Yes I know how it is. At different times in my life I have had anxiety and depression. Working out helps - even just walking outside daily. 1st thing in the morning I practice mindful meditation and breathing and remember that everything is actually OK in this very moment. The moment is the key for me. Keep the faith!
@@rsher_digital-artAll mental constructs "fear" especially are ego based and have nothing to do with our essential selves which is the only true source of peace.
Chasing after something implies that you do not currently have that something.
Money, happiness, bliss, joy, peace, abundance...
I AM abundance,
I AM peace,
I AM joy,
I AM!
Dear Rupert - your words are a hammer of truth delivered with love
That is the best thing I have ever heard about happiness. I don't regret that I am only allowed to understand it in mid-life, although I would have liked to understand it as a child. You give me the happiness to pass this teaching on to my children. Thank you so much!
I cannot find the right words . I shall take back the bliss inside me, wanting to share my happiness with someone I once felt deceived by and now, many years later have got in contact with again !!! This must be my opportunity to do it right Sharing love instead of wanting it !❤❤❤🎉
Dear Rupert, thank you! This is the most powerful video I've ever listened to
yeah
Game changer!
Very nice, it did something to me
Such an amazing meditation. The power of his words and his silence. So much wisdom. Thank you!
When we’re children we don’t seek happiness. We are happiness.
Yet we cry way more. We are actually children lol, not happiness? Sometimes we experience a lot OF IT, sometimes we dont. Doesnt mean we literally are it. Am I right? Are you saying that a child is made of happiness, but an adult is not?
Thank you, Rupert. Never heard anything that made that much sense to me. Your message touched my soul. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Everything is what we allow...we are the problem and solution to everything
Unconditional love and kindness and brutal honesty are needed to deal with all these issues in the video
A talk on happiness from the most solemn speaker
We can feel joy and be joy in then presence of our infinite self which is love. When our soul awakens to it's true identity, there is pure joy in trusting beyond what our physical sees might perceive in every given moment. There is nothing external that can fill what is already complete. Letting go of how we think things should be and allowing the Holy Flow to move through us, creates the perfection of joy unfolding.
The Universe, God or whatever WE believe in it is SPEAKING, TALKING to us through Rupert Spira, of Divine thank you for you Mercy!!
Enlightenment is lightening up from the illusive burdens of the mind.
happiness , peace , joy and love is the nature of our being.. knowing of being is happiness itself. being present now. ...without a condition
This is just perfect. So simple, so powerful. The not resisting, the being instead of doing
Nothing material has ever made me “happy” . True happinesses is peace and knowing I am in doing what I came to do on earth. Now that is another subject. I was the happiest when I was volunteering and helping others, but even that can be a temporary happiness..
What a profound, profound teaching. Every word is gold.🙏
I paused the video and asked myself "what do I need to do to be happy.. " and I answered myself that I need to be with myself.. again another thought came up saying... "I need to be with the source of happiness so that I can be ever happy..." again another thought followed perhaps as an answer to my previous thought saying... "the source of the happiness is YOU"
I realized this over a year ago & lived ever so fully! But slowly forgot this realization & fell back into depression, frustration & apathy. Until a few days ago I realized I’ve been looking for happiness all this time which implies/confirms/is me admitting that I’m unhappy. If I simply cease to look for happiness then I’m implying the opposite. Meaning if I was happy would I search for happiness? 😎
It is more a confirmation of happiness in being, which is always there, than a search for happiness. Whatever is there, I do not need to search for, but only confirm by repeated perception.
Again Rupert delivers one of his superlative meditation!!! This is a prayer I daily need to listen to!!! Thanks so much!!🙏
"To experience continuous peace and happiness is to say 'yes' to our current circumstances. And 'yes' is a choice we make moment to moment."
It is as simple and as hard as that.
Moment to moment or just now ?
We open ourselves to it and surrender resistance. Then the yes comes in. Choice implies awareness, so it is a choice to open up to something we would normally close down to.
Thank you. So true. And also saying "No" to the Negatives. It really does work!!
Matt T do it one time and tell us your experience. Im pretty sure you will be miserable. But “jokes” aside, there is only this moment so say yes eternally in this moment which we experience as series of many moments. Saying “yes” In one moment equals saying yes in all in a sense.
Wowww it is soooo clicking!
Again a Meditation? I can only say thank You for sharing all that. Anyone here going to see Rupert in Freiburg? With Love 🌷
Happiness is what you ARE. Not something you find. The very Search for happiness is keeping you away from beeing yourself aka happiness. Just be, and rest in the infinite ocean of consciousness aka happiness where love, truth and beauty resides.
do swim in that idiocy
@Winchestah Why the cynicism? And what's it done for you?
So.. you think 3 meals , a roof and a lap top make you happy? Is it possible that too much comfort can make you miserable?
We are born in a state of happiness as babies and children. The so called civilising process of our corrupt society slowly hibernates this happiness. Its alway there like a child whispering for its parent or friend. To return to this childlike state is to know the Love of God!!!!
@@jammasterj13 "Hibernates this happiness." I like that way of stating it because that accurately encapsulates the process. Rupert uses another term yet I can't think of it just now, something on the order of "obscuring" our natural Awareness when the egoic state emerges and comes to dominate.
Love you Rupert! You are the most understandable spiritual teacher I have ever heard. Your make it simply and easy, just as it is
Having gratitude plays a big part of being happy.
Being ungrateful of what we have and envious of others who have more will only bring boatload of stress, anger, frustration, and unhappiness onto ourselves.
Super Amazing!! Thank You Mr. Spira, your works could never be in vain.
It's not about wanting to change or accept this world and what goes on in it. It is about turning the mind back into the source and allowing the world to disappear.
🤯 as a westerner exploring eastern spirituality this is simple explanation has made me reach a new pinnacle of understanding. After listening to this you really feel so light like you're welling up on the inside and could just float away.
im very pleased to see that rupert is still doing his thing.
thank you for uploading
I really don’t ever achieve a state that could be called happiness. When I’m content, then this is pretty much all I need.
Eternal Supreme Peace is what I've searched for & wanted (without even knowing it yet).!
Now I know that is what I've always wanted & looked for.!
Eternal Supreme Peace is beyond all states & experiences 🙂
Thank You sooo much Thank You
The Yes mind has been a blessing Rupert, thank you!
Whatever has the power to make you happy also has the power to make you unhappy but in either case, it is 'I' that has inadvertently given it this power.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
So profound!!
One of my favourite meditations...😊🙏
Thank you, Rupert, for being here and now with me at this instance....and of course, I thank the Internet for making this sharing possible....
Distillation of enlightenment principles. Thankyou Teacher
wow!! A profound wisdom!!
Deeper self seems to understand it all.
My heartfelt gratitude, sir.💖🙏
There will be a time when you do not listen music just only by ears , you do not see things with just your eyes only , you do not feel by just your senses only. What is happening outside is happening inside of you, you can not separate it. There are no boundaries. There is just One...this Oneness is love.
This helped so much! I have been so stuck in resistance and suffering as a result of my attachment to certain outcomes. I feel this talk freeing me up. Thanks Rupert for this talk
Tremendous Rupert, Thank you (again and again). Your line, “it cannot be found because it cannot be lost” rang thru me like a current of relief. 🙏🏻💜😊
It cannot be found because it cannot be lost?.... Okay but would it be nice to find a 1962 Corvette convertible with a billion dollars of gold in the trunk.. a gorgeous babe asking for a ride to Paradise?
I'm completely new to this so I assume many of you will disagree about what am I going to say. Anyway, while I find this fascinating and true to some extent it gets me thinking - what is the point of chasing anything material in life then if we could simply feel happy all the time because we are not dependent on money/luxury/relationships to feel happy? It seems to me like we would stop in one place and never improve as a mankind if we would give up on trying to chase the happiness. It feels like double-edged sword, while we do find happiness within us and realise that we don't need anything else around us to make us happy, that also means that we stop chasing any kind of achievements or improvements in our lives.
First find the happiness within you. And from that place, desire whatever you want, chase whatever you want, just stay with that happiness.
Wonderful!! I’m going to transcribe this and give it to my nearly deaf father who is suffering over the loss of his faculties due to aging.
The best guidance I ever received ....... deep bow 💛🙏
Thank you for this wisdom. I sit here now with the start of a cold and I have three major events and travel coming up, but facing and accepting and saying "yes" to all of it really helps! Peace from this will heal body and soul. Flow of energy, thank you!
This message makes me sad and happy at the same time 🙁😊
It is obvious that misery started somewhere. Anything that starts we know from our experience that it ends. But it takes some awakening some waking up ourselves by someone that is himself happiness . There are no words to explain or express the gratitude of the heart except the love and never ending thank youse . To my beloved master and true friend in the eternal journey of happiness.🙏
For me THE MOST DIFFICULT AND BRILLIANT of all Rupert's meditations I've heard.
I had to listen to it for many times... and finally reilised what it means. Thank You Rupert!!!
"No one can impose suffering on us". Meaning that Putin can't impose suffering on Ukrainians - it is the Ukrainians who do it to themselves by getting upset by their children being savagely murdered by Russian rockets?
Resistance and reactions are what we say yes to. Circumstances stir up these energies and our openness includes them. Love this meditation.
There's a big Paradox about life; Even though we must accept that 'nothing can make us happier,' and accept what is, we are constantly striving to achieve more, change things and make life better for ourselves and for the people around us.
Tony Nesta I agree.
@@andreasleonlandgren3092 I listened to this video once and I'm confused. Actually, looked at some videos on STOICISM, there are some similarities.
"whatever we say no to makes us miserable."
So true.
Not always..!
What if someone tries to rape me tho
Thank you Rupert for making this meditation available through RUclips. Your stile and choice of words resonate with me very much and helps me answer questions that I had but I didn't had satisfying answers to. And also helped me to answers on questions that I was in the process of forming. I'm glad that our path met in this period of my life where I'm able to absorb your teachings and incorporate them in my daily life. Greetings form Amsterdam.
What wise wisdom... I truly needed this! Thanks Rupert
Just seeing this title made me so happy
I’ve found Life is counter-intuitive like that, they work the opposite way we expect them to! :)
@@adamdownes4725 You don't get my message
Rupert, you are an authentic and honourable countryman, but if I said ‘I love you, but I do not need you’ to my wife (around 18.41 mins), I may be homeless by nightfall.
lie to her then
Somehow your comment makes me think that you think that being homeless would be a bad thing. :)
Amit Sen I don’t where you are from, but being homeless on a London street, is not something to aspire to. There is nothing gracious and enlightening about being homeless. No one should have to experience it. Unfortunately, many do. 🙏
I think if I said to my wife 'you fulfill a need in me' she may also consider throwing me out since dependency is not the same as freely given love. It's the way the phrase is understood. Some people understand need as love as joy as bliss and have not looked deeply into the terms. And thus of course 'I don't need you' is now understood as a break up speech in modern idiom. Shame how words devolve really.
@@NigelHyphenJones Sorry for making assumptions about the severity of your social/living situation. It sounds really stressful to be that dependant. I wish you all the best.
You are such a gift to this world, Rupert. Thank you.
Much gratefull for constant reminder that i should not take what is real to be Unreal and what is Unreal to be real! Profound teacher you are!
12:30 meditation is a universal yes-saying to everything. Our nature is to say yes to everything.
first time i've seen rupert without flowers ;)
.. have you noticed how beautiful the background is? It is surprising for me to notice the beauty that often happen to be around him. :)
...eye of the beholder...
Bestest Inventions I ate them
@@depressionbeard9882 wow surreal!
I wonder what the significance of this is? Flowers won't make him happier.
Seeking purpose is all there is.
Yes! Acceptance of self and others. We are love.
Our suffering is our own activity.
Well said.
WOW! Such divine depth, crystal clarity, boundless joy. Sincere gratitude Rupert, thank you kindly for the sharing of such wisdom. Perfect bliss expanding continuously internally externally eternally ❤🙏❤
This is one of the best speeches I have hear 🙏🏼 Thank You Rupert. May blessings to you ❤
nothing can be viewed as no- thing which helps in understanding because a thing is an object. In other words, no thing can make you happy because you are no-body. I also loved how you mentioned the empty space in the room that is just is. It reminds me of Eckhart Tolle's quote Everybody pays attention to the things in space but who pays attention to space itself?
The light in me recognises the light in you.
What you are trying to convey is felt and understood clearly at this moment as a result of your words. Thank you, Rupert.
That's something for which to be happy your ears your ears heardt this beautiful wisdom
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." ... George Orwell
Oh but it is!
What if we do assume, but temporarily forget about it?
I don't make that assumption and am still miserable.
Happiness is not material, how can it be an object??????????
@@iOwnzNubz1 It means object as in the end goal.
Yes. It cannot be lost. Our resistance creates misery.
If our happiness depends on a relation or an object, we cannot remain happy...
Grateful for the words of Love and wisdom 🙏❤
I always remind myself, the separate mind, that Be OFF ego-Mind, Observe-Forgive and Forget!
this openess to experience is what we are, not what we do🙏🙏
"happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I possess". Ken Dodd.
I am not stained; nothing I experience can stain me. May all of us who were taught we were born with original sin be liberated with the truth of our eternal purity and innocence.