The Sinking of Attention into Itself
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In this video clip, Rupert discusses the common pitfall during meditation of trying to locate awareness as an object.
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"What you are looking for is actually where you are looking from"
wait, what?
@@mejohn101 what ever can be seen or felt is not u u are aware of observer so u r not even the observer
@@mejohn101 u have have to be blank and drop ur mind
i hope i am able to do it some day for long time then maybe u will find the real u
the commenter gets it.
It’s hilariously true
I have never looked at the worst events in my life with utter joy, until Rupert showed that no matter what has happened I have never changed. I have always been myself and nothing has ever or will ever change that.
i was fired yesterday and even in the midst of driving home and crying i was completely aware and at peace
@@abby999 it seems that meditating when you're experiencing all sorts of crazy things like heavy emotions and such is the most clarifying way to know yourself
"Keep quiet", "Do not raise a thought" Papaji
Wow! You can actually sink deeper endlessly. That must be one amazing experience!
Tears of recognition. In meeting a guru and then the knowledge that I know to be true. Heard. Again.
Such a precise and direct pointing. Thanks Rupert.
Awareness is shinning through, effortlessly, choicelessly transmuting into all the experiencing that floats through it, as it...only known by all the forms it takes... including: attending, seeking, frustration, body-image, stillness, silence (all that it used to confuse itself as itself...) moment by moment by moment...
So grateful for the ever-so simple distillation of such a liberating teaching. Namaste.
αναρωτιέμαι αν εχουν λεχθει στα ελληνικα;
Rupert clarifies a number of misconceptions in this one~ :)
perfectly said
Rubert thank you SO MUCH for your boundless compassion and clear thinking 🙏 ❤
I wish I knew his teaching 3 yrs ago. It would have saved my time, money and relationships.
Indra Bali Don't worry about the past, my friend. You are aware of this now.
your suffering has led you to this moment
I am interested, does anyone else hear the Wittgensteinen logic in Rupert's words? I almost never hear anyone relate Wittgenstein to spirituality, but he was the most influential philosopher in the 20th century and he tried to bring the logic from the eastern traditions into the western it seems to me, almost serving both equally, which his peers didn't like. Then again, we all just use different metaphors. I really love the accessible logic from both Rupert and Wittgenstein. Very beautiful. Reducing the resistance into nothing, since it never was there. It was never an object.
The torch example you gave, in my mind it behaved like this ways: First it would center it self and just stand as a light in the middle, but that wouldn't illuminate everything Or nothing. Then it would try to illuminate everything. There was not enough power. But when it tried to illuminate nothing since nothing is not an object, it would illuminate everything, since if there is nothing to illuminate, "everything" is the logical(?) step after nothing, and it would spread evenly across the room and everything would be visible. It almost feels like a bug for me. When you focus at nothing, everything comes into focus. It's quite entertaining and terrible, sickening, exhaustively beautiful.
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”― Wittgenstein Ludwig
I read 1/4th of Wittgenstein's PI before getting on this path, and it primed me super hard. It very clear with PI that language is a miracle and merely an approximation - it points to nothing substantial. These ideas only happen to work (insofar as they do)... so what really is there?
@@mtrisi It's 9 years since I wrote that post, funny to see it again, and thank you for your reply. Good post.
If you're anything like me, I really ended up needing deeper explanations than what I could get from this kind of neutral meditative explorative approach.
The essence-energies distinction found in Christian Orthodoxy has helped me out a ton.
A video such as "Trinitarian Ontology: The Threefold Structure of Being" might also be quite an interesting watch.
Beautiful explanation.. thank you dear Rupert.. 🙏😍🇮🇳 love n regards from Tiruvannamalai 🇮🇳
Beautiful thank you. This remind me... Be still and know that I Am God (Psalm 46:10)
Beautifull teacher. I just feel the total stillness inside him
Very zen like approach. This is what I got from what I heard: just BE ... that which cannot be expressed verbally but actualized/felt/known albeit unfathomable to the mind rather like falling in love, but without an object to focus on.
Hiya Minahh - An appropriate analogy "falling into love" with Tennyson's "sinking star" quote that Rupert used. That which we "fall into" is our true nature which is Love.
Thankyou Rupert. I like the way in which you explained the trap into which many of us falter... It's amazing how we easily sabotage our own peace by thinking too much :)
Magnanimous soul, Rupert is, to share his way, without which, I for one, would have missed, clothed in the garb of tradition, mystery, ancient taboos, fear and unworthiness.
Really hits the nail on the head!
I like your username! :)
Experience is without "place". Its "stay" is everywhere and nowhere.
listening is the most sublime and empty aspect of attention
Greg Goode who like Rupert follows the Direct Path recommends an exercise with breathing which he calls the "Heart Opener" which takes one into the experience of Awareness but without the mind being involved. Of course, it takes the mind to re "mind" you to do it.
Namaste, Great guidance!
This is very apt..He just gets it right every time...
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information Rupert. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤
Rupert dear I love you ❤.
Beautifly put. yOU are the knowing of.....
True, I am aware of my thoughts and feelings in my mind, sensations of the body, and perceptions of the world around. After repeated practice, perhaps, Awareness feels the real me. (I identify myself as Awareness.)
But it is still My thoughts, My feelings/perceptions/sensations that I am aware of. It is still very much localised.
When and how does Awareness begin to feel infinite and eternal?
Can you help me with this?
I Love this guy. Really helped me drop some false notions.
Woah. Thank you
to know being is to be knowing, or to be knowingly is to know being
Staying there what a knock marvellous
How is it possible to be aware of being aware?
I mean the sensation of the body is unescapable so how can you be aware of being aware when the feeling of body is an object that cant be ignored? It automatically arises with the feeling of I...
Even if I can be aware of it as something within awareness the sensation of the body cant be shut off.
So how can awareness watch itself without being objectless?
Jake Lerms objects are objects. Thoughts, sounds, inner body sensations, they are all just objects. Rupert sometimes points out there is no line between your “inner” body and the outside world. We are only interested in awareness. The nature of the object bodily or not makes no difference and upon closer inspection this becomes more obvious
Being aware of awareness is the last thought of the mind before disappearing like the falling star.
This guy was great on Modern Family.
I cant belive that this video doesnt have bilions of apreciacions
Give up the search and thus you reach.
Thank you!
Wow
Hi Rupert, thank you for this 🙏 I just have a question. What happens when the mind freaks out after going into deep awareness? I’m noticing that after being in a space of awareness, there’s this jump up into the mind, and it feels really scary. Is this a normal reaction of the ego? Wondered how I can ease this intense reaction and discomfort. Thank you 😊
It’s hard to comprehend the idea of sinking into the “directionalist point of awareness” when you were born in the hustle culture mind frame of USofA and you were intravenously fed the mandate that, here, we, know our direction and should be actively walking towards it.
This video and it’s explanation is absolutely spectacular
this guy is GOD
Why yes...yes he is.
And so are you!
Gary Bentlage Of course. To have the idea that others are not "God" too is a serious error.
The idea here is to eliminate the Abrahamic or Judeo-Christian idea of a separate God whom we may only Atone with. The fall of man or original sin etc. An idea like...God is not in nature, man, God, nature are absolute different things.
Two main areas of difference: How the One becomes Two and Views of Ego.
Western vs. Eastern
+Gary Bentlage I'm very familiar with Alan Watts. Amazing stuff! I'll check out the particular videos you're referring to. For your last question or puzzlement check out Alan Watts: 'You're It.'
+Gary Bentlage and watch 'The Real You.'
Gary Bentlage yes, good chatting...'God Bless You Too.' ;)
Mind tries to capture the experience for longer period and finds itself staring at an 'allian object'...thats a tough trape
The more you drain the mind the closer you are to your true self.
But if i still want to go to nothingness, im still trying to go somewhere... If i tell my mind tonstay still, i will still find something to focus on, but maybe something much minute than before
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These teachings are so confusing to me.
How do you just rest as awareness?
When I try to do this all I get is headache and neck ache ):
You have to keep doing it. Notice the sensation of the headache. Are you aware of it? Notice the sensation of your neck. Are you aware of it? Notice outside sounds. Are you aware of them? Notice the common factor they all share: awareness. Keep going back to that feeling of awareness over and over. Rupert has great guided meditations on his RUclips channel that cleverly help to explore this
@@robmaric
Okay, I become aware of thoughts, emotions sensations and perceptions around. After repeated practice, perhaps, Awareness feels the ‘real me. (I identify myself as Awareness.)
But it is still MY thoughts and MY emotions/sensations/perceptions I am aware of.
When and how does awareness feel infinite and eternal?
Can you help me with this?
@@SuperstarSridhar that sounds really wonderful that you're able to recognise that! Lot's of people don't find that insight easily. It's a big question you've asked and I'm not really qualified to answer it. I'd recommend keeping with the words of good teachers like Rupert, Tom Das and classic teachers like Nisargadatta and Ramana Maharshi. Teachers who advise you gently persist with enquiry in a balanced and loving way and who recommend you lead a good ethical life, doing things which evoke compassion and kindness in you. All the great masters say our true nature is the source of love and peace itself, so when we are kind to ourselves and others in a genuine way this is aligning ourselves with that. Wishing you the best.
@@robmaric
Your prompt and detailed reply is much appreciated. Thank you so much for your kind words.
Your words make much sense and I will do as you say. I will continue with my practices and mend my lifestyle as you suggest.
Meanwhile, you wish me success in my sincere pursuit. Thanks again.
I cannot see it
How to sink attention ?????
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ATTENTION = Awareness + Object. When the attention sinks to the heart of our being the object dissolves like a moth on fire. Because consciousness has two qualities 1. It shines objects at a distance.
2. It destroys objects (thoughts) on CONTACT.
And what remains is AWARENESS 😹😹😹😹😹😹
Unclear on how to sink the attention into itself.
Just be aware of being aware.
All these teachings explsin nothing, there are maybe 2-3 people in the world which are enlighted