This has basically changed my life. Whenever I begin to feel an unpleasant emotion, I just ask who is feeling this? And the feeling just disappears. It actually magical to have found the key to peace and happiness. Before I relied on alcohol. Now I don’t need any of that. Just that simple question.
Yeah it is getting interesting for me too. I wake up and here is this guy. All his thoughts, feelings, sensations, his universe, senses of self / sense of identity (selfhoods) , even his consciousness... can be known. Who or what is all this? And who or what knows all this, knows even the “who” and what that has appeared? And where is this knower of all this? Anywhere? Or is he/it at the location of the various phenomena (including, again, this sense of identity itself)? Is the knowing of it different than it. Ive heard this called “the appearance”. Absolutely everything that happens even the stance I take toward it and what I think of it and how I feel about it and the “I”who is taking a stance.. is all knowable. The most clear “ultimate ME” which I thought was the final observer, can be observed (known) as it’s happening (and ultimately it’s impermanent and impersonal and burns if clung to and conditioned/caused and even kindve unreal, but shining). And it is a happening not a someone or something. Where is all this, this flowing apparent person and universe? Theres no such thing as me, or “here”. Or location. But it is known. Starting to suspect the knowing of it is love also, or bliss or light. I think describing what Nisargadatta call the light of awareness. And i believe im using “consciousness” the way he and the Buddhists would not the way the advaita (sat-chit-ananda) people would. This light of awareness can be aware of consciousness (as Im using the word). Well writing that out was helpful. Thanks.
It took Spira and Daniel about 4 minutes to make me finally understand what I haven’t been able to grasp after 14 years of meditation. I only have the words «thank you» to offer in return, but they come from my heart.
I just sobbed when Daniel asked “how do I do that?” ...and Rupert didn’t show any form of irritation or impatience..this seemed to open up my heart and the flood gates. It was beautiful to see and experience... kind, loving patience. I am grateful for this ‘unlocking’ and release. 🙏🏼 Thank you for your questions Daniel as they resonate and for Rupert’s wisdom shared 💞
You guys want a trick. Allow negative emotion, find the “me”/I Am, go back into the sad/memory/trauma/me and ask “is this Me.” Allow being to answer, then allow the negative energy to dissolve. I healed decades old trauma in injury doing this!!
Because Daniel is closely involved in a spiritual search and "how to become enlightened", I was wondering when Rupert was asking him "tell me about that "I" - how much of that he simply learnt conceptually, and how much he directly saw experimentally. Many spiritual seekers now perfectly all the concepts, but direct realisation is not a concept.
@@StarLink85 the only thing existing is consciousness. But consciousness is not a thing. Its nothing. Easy come easy go anyway the wind blows, nothing really matters to me... i don't have the words to express what I mean. I'm gonna try anyway. Language is limiting and has blind spots. We have to read between the lines. Reality is not composed of atoms and molecules. Dreams are not composed of atoms and molecules. Reality and dreams are composed of consciousness. Reality is imagined. Reality is a dream. Everything in reality including reality is not real. Its imagined. Reality is made from and composed of consciousness which is the only thing in reality that is real.
@@StarLink85 i know it from direct experience. It scared the crap out of me. The feeling and Knowing God is the only being in the universe which doesn't exist and is not composed of atoms and molecules. ALL dualities collapse . self and other are 1. God is alone.
Be the witness. Be in the conscious presence which you are. All others are not you, body, mind, thoughts, feelings, relationships. Be in the I AM. You are only the awareness consciousness from the arrival of the human body which was given a name of identity. You are only this only this from your birth to death when the manifested consciousness of this physco somatic human apparatus becomes part and was always part of the timeless, formless un- manifested consciousness. Till then be in the " I AM".
Rupert Sir..This is the practical of "Who am I" (నేను ఎవరు?) Of Bhagawan Sri RamaNa Maharshi. I have been reading a translated version of "Be as you are " and could relate a lot of that to your video today. I am waiting for the day when I can meet you in person. Thank you Sir.
I am fascinated by the concept of self inquiry. Unluckily I still can't separate between the feelings and the awareness that's experiencing the feelings. The more I try to look inwards the more I find myself focusing on the negative feelings themselves. I've become very good at detecting and pinpointing where I feel the discomfort as soon as it starts building up, but I am still unable to get to the awareness that's experiencing it...
Perhaps there’s a point at which trauma might need to be addressed. It can be helpful to have a really good trauma therapist who also understands the spiritual journey.
@@Zephyr.Lo-Renz Therapist helps deal with specific emotions, thought patterns, events, and relationships. Non-duality provides an overall framework. Both are complementary.
@@Zephyr.Lo-Renz Our beliefs that run our lives are very often subconscious. They need to be made conscious and let go, through working with and allowing our repressed emotions. This was what two enlightened beings, Lester Levenson and David Hawkins, did to achieve their liberation. IT is awareness of awareness that is revealed by itself when we hold onto nothing, when we believe nothing. It is often these turbulent emotions and resulting thought streams that take us out of self-abidance. If healed, awareness reveals itself, by itself, without effort. I found Rupert a while ago, and his teachings are very piercing. But since using the simple technique of 'letting go', as taught by Lester and Hawkins, I've found the mind to be much, much quieter, subtler, simpler. It's made self-abidance exponentially easier. Their techniques can be found in the book, "Letting go" by David Hawkins, as well as the Release Technique and Sedona Method (of which there is a free full course from 1992 on RUclips). The book "The Secret of Letting Go" by Guy Finley is also a wonderful introduction to the topic. Letting go is a choice - one we often don't believe we really have, because we're so used to holding on. But it can be seen with some willingness that we can release anything. That's all it is - a willingness. Just practice a little with it, and it's simplicity will reveal itself to you. Letting go is a simple relinquishing of beliefs, judgements and wants as they come forth, while remaining connected with the energetic component of emotions in the body, allowing them to be as they are. Eventually, this becomes a habit, and all things are surrendered and released as they arise, and quiet self-abidance is all that remains. I had wished someone had shown me the power of simply letting go, when I look back on my spiritual path. I hope this helps someone out there. God bless!
@@Zephyr.Lo-Renz Rupert teaches the direct path of knowledge through self-enquiry and applying this knowledge to purify the mind. Other paths first teach purification of mind and training the mind to focus before the path of knowledge. A combination customized to the student is most effective. Traditional paths don't mention therapy, but I found it surprisingly effective even when my excellent therapist had no clue about non-duality. As zain mentioned, the Self is revealed when the impure mind does not obstruct.
I like this one. My perspective is a little different on the love feeling. You mention that love sensation is a product of inter personal interaction (paraphrasing.) I view only one at the root, and so at the root it's a sensation not of loving others but of enjoying creating. One likes to create. 🌹🎁
I thought exactly the same. What I am always wondering is, is that a caught up suggestion.... I mean the thing with the unborn... Cause I cannot say that. What I can say 8s,i seem to be in the body and around it and I am kind of thinning away after a few meters. There is no felt separation between me and the rest of the world. What I cannot say is, that I will never die, I just don't know that
@@ailidhlalala1592 it’s all belief. No one knows the actual Truth. We just have a belief of the Truth. If the belief sets us free, go with that belief.
@@ailidhlalala1592 yes! I have exactly the same! I seem to be inside my actual head, though I observe that I think I am and i'm picturing my head in my head (oh dear) so that's probably why I think I'm in my body/head, and I observe that. (Anyone who lands in this thread by accident must think we're craaaazy!!). I also don't know that I can never die, my awareness doesn't guarantee anything, I just am, but whether that it forever, who knows?
@@Jaqvander since I never met anyone who's not crazy, I don't really care about anyone's opinion about seeking peace... :))) If I understood mooji and Spira right, you should concentrate on the one who is reporting that pictures you described.... I am also quite confused, but I think it is an ego tactic as well and lately I realised that I can see even the confusion about the confusion. I think we are both trying to resolve this with our brains and that's not possible.... Maby the knowledge of not dying is an intuitive knowing and nothing we can think of. But I find it relatively important that we are honest to ourselves cause I think the questioner in the video (and he is probably not the only one) seems to repeat a suggestion... Maybe he doesn't who knows
I feel like he is giving Rupert the answers he thinks he wants and not his true answers. Like answering questions in a test after studying. Anyone else gets this impression?
I was actually surprised he got to those answers so quickly , but I'd argue that its still possible to discover them superficially or without total clarification .
Isn't this a way to disconnect from parts of your being which in these situations were the sad and scared parts? I'm not critiquing but am genuinely interested. The few times I've had clear and wonderful awakenings of my true nature is after I have been diving into the feelings that I have been running away from for a long time, and to finally embrace them has been the thing that set me free. So I'm a bit confused when the answer here is to ignore the feelings and put your focus on the self instead.
Please Rupert with respect I would like to ask you the following: in this conversation you asked who is feeling sad? Who is feeling scared? The true self is perfect and does not feel sad or scared so is this not the mind ? This is where I get lost. I am certain you can answer this so please feel free to contact me and let’s get this resolved as I am certain there are others who also feel that we have either missed something and can’t quite grasp your lesson. Surely you have the answer. I am not my thoughts, feelings or emotions. I know I am consciousness which does not change, as this pure perfect consciousness is the one experiencing all of this as an observer. It must be the mind or ego that has these feelings. Not the one that observes all of this. So why ask these questions if we already know this and are wanting to know the one that is experiencing all of this ?
Actually you are on the verge of the great mystery of Advaita Vedanta. So I dont think he can enlighten you on this question as much as you may think. Maya, the great illusion, is sometimes called, “That which isnt.” Meaning ultimately ‘was it even there?’, even when “I” thought it was, if that I is just made of awareness too. It is universal that the closer one gets to enlightenment, the less one thinks it matters whether this body-mind (which is not who we are) ever gets it, ie whether enlightenment happens or not. This is similar to asking whether the suffering was ever really real, whether the cause of suffering was illusory and the suffering real, or whether both illusory. But your question is essentially: if the true self is always ok and even perfect, and never confused.. and the true self is who we are... then what is the problem? Why does it matter if the mind or ego etc is lost and scared? As I said, the more one realizes this (in the mind), the less it seems to matter whether enlightenment even happens. Enlightenment is not something that happens to the True Self. It’s when THE MIND learns it is only a projection of Atma, and learns that it doesnt exist per se but is a flow of phenomena. Can a flow of phenomena “learn”? Yes. When the flow never again contains neither the explicit belief, nor deep implicit visceral belief, in its own selfhood. When that happens the “mind” which isnt a solitary entity is said to have learned that, ie become enlightened. True Self is ever enlightened.
Well, for me these feelings are deep and real... I would NEVER label them 'ego' or 'mind'... Reality has levels... Rupert is attempting to facilitate one to find/see/Notice/Experience the True Being... But these things are part of our human life, every one of us! They will sometimes visit us as we heal the whole Kaboodle... You would not label them if you are looking after a beloved child; treat yourself the same way! You are trying to work it all out from 'where you are'... The key is not to resist...
@@ibperson7765 you are quite correct in the way you focus theoretically... But I do not have any beliefs from nonduality which I have not seen myself: the two I guess are: 1. we are not our ego-me-self (that is not real from a very real, alive or ultimate perspective); and the Great Joy-Happiness--Beauty-Peace-etc. which is Already inherent in our being... I am interested in Wholeness, in a humanistic way - which means catering for our own 'normal' self in the world too of course; and this, in a very real sense includes taking wise deep intuitive care of our feelings... My point earlier/yesterday, was trying to say this... that the more I care for all parts of the being, it brings the Whole of myself Alive (-surprise, surprise), the more spiritual experience is just given to me left, right and centre (It could make someone want to start a new religion maybe, until they realise that would not probably be a good idea)... And like you imply near enlightenment, the less we care about it, the less we cling to it :) Life for me is Amazing in its wholeness... and deny/denigrate/repress a side and it will come back to have its say... It is easy to talk of for some; but it is all in the being, tasting life and experiencing...
go and experience one yourself, then you will "know"..... there are on youtube some for free . Here is an example: ruclips.net/video/IZ8N0wk-VtM/видео.html
Beautiful. But i didn't like when you did not answer to Sam Harris when he said that obviously billions of years ago, not even earth existed and so where was consciousness......... However i really appreciate and like your point of view ❤️
I thought the I created by thought can die? I am talking about the I referred to by Krishnamurti. The person who asked the question answered or described a theoretical I that is talked about by various people.
Rupert, I doubt that you have the time nor the inclination to read the comments made to your videos, nevertheless this comment is made for the benefit of those who may stumble across it. It is meant to be a summary, in a nutshell, of all that you have said over the years. The prophet Muhammad penned this sentence centuries ago; it goes as follows, "YOU ARE NOT YOU BUT YOU ARE GOD, AND THERE IS NO YOU. YOU NEVER WERE AND NEVER WILL BE." What can be added or taken away from this truth? Thank you Mr. Spira for your tireless contribution.
@@artnanne I don't know ... all that I do know is that a guy named Bayani (?) interpreted Mohummad's sutra from the Arabic to English. I highly suspect tha Mohummad was deep into Sufi stuff, and that the entire sutra reflects just that. Research.
@@matrixgameoflife2649 Statements like that have been around for over four thousand years and hence predate Muhammad by thousands of years. Bhagavad gita. Shivasim. Others.
The fear (anger, sadness, etc.) and the I that experiences it are one and the same principle. The I or ego assumes the form of anger or sadness, etc. and experiences itself as them What we really are, i.e. the light of Consciousness,, is always peacfull and blissful and devoid of any I, emotion, impulse, etc.. The sense of I doesn't apply to Comsciousness. I is of the nature of ego and is always idenfied with something. The ego or I experiences, pleasure, pain, joy, etc. Consciousness is always free, peacfull and blissful. But it can experience fully itself when the higher and pure sattvic intellect, rests steadily and calmly in Consciousness. Then Intellect identified with Consciousness becomes luminous as consciousness itself. without purity of mind, Intellect and inner mind freedom from suffering and the uninterrupted clear experience of bliss is not possible. Purity is the most important factor.
even before saying/asking who is this,who am i , you are the one that aware of those questions, actually you cant be other than yourself, not even in nanosecond. I am always i am
The final step into the Immortal is prior to, or rather beyond, even the most raw and primordial I-am; it is beyond being and non-being. The Impersonal, or the impersonal and empty Real, or The Deathless as the Buddha calls it. It is the indentity-less Absolute of the non-dual silence.
What about animals? It seems they can have separation anxiety or depression for quite some time. Example is my dog when we leave the home. Are they "focusing" on the sadness? If not, what is the reason for their behavior? (I realize you may not specialize in animal behavior but thought it was in interesting thought). I was thinking the reason we get into chronic bad thought (and so behavior) is because we over think things. But it seems we can think our way out of that too. Who would have thunk? :)
Hello, what is the difference between the thoughts that arise on their own and those that we produce ourselves (to think or find a solution, or solve an equation, or visualize an object, or analyze a situation, etc.). In other words, is there a difference between thought produced (voluntary) and thought sudden (involuntary)? What does this imply in relation to non-duality? Ps: google translate. Thanks for reply
I investigated that aspect before, I found out they are basically the same as the willingness itself is a thought that we simply associate it with other thoughts that we call voluntary.
@@OmarAhmed-jo1cf Ok, so we can admit in this case that there is a relative author who produces thoughts, and a non-dual author who is only a spectator of the thoughts, the witness🤔. When we do an act of will to actively think, who acts? What is the nature of these thoughts? Are they the same as thoughts that arise when no effort is made?
As a meditator you will find that you get greater control of your thoughts and thinking process. As awareness increases, the randomness of thoughts sizes and insight, realization and wisdom take over. Your thought activity also depends on your actions and sense of morality and ethics.
I repeat over and over to myself "I Am God" and my personal self appears to cling even harder to the mind. I need help please. I can't shake the small self who's in turmoil and pain.
You have to find reasonable rational arguments why you are Not god for this narrative to stop. Do that first. Some of that suffering will cease. Then you can continue on your spiritual path. It looks contra intuitive but it's not. It's a hurdle on your path which can be resolved by humbling down the ego. You are Not god. Nobody is.
Traditional non-duality acknowledges different levels of reality. In the absolute level, essence of God and I are same. At the transactional level of reality, God is the limitless and I am the limited. At this level, human effort and God's Grace are both needed. Also, effort is in my hands and result is not. So, I put in my effort and leave the result to God. Most distress arises from being vested in the result. Distress prevents me from acting. Action is required for getting results. This is a vicious circle. Relinquishing result to God frees my mind to act in the transactional world. This gives rise to better resolution of problems and calmer mind.
When ever I do self inquiry I find that there only can be awareness of the body and nothing else.so if awareness is limitless why is it restricted to one body?if the body is in a small room that's the only thing awareness is aware of.body sensations, sights sounds,thoughts is all there is.
Our direct experience is only of one body and other bodies are seen by this one body when they come into view of the body which makes it the one bodies experience.thats all that can be experienced by awareness.
@@Batfink11 You can reach a point of being aware of awareness. Then can see is limitless. Being aware of your body-mind and finding it to be limited only means the body-mind is limited. Seeing the end of a ruler only tells you the limit of the ruler not the limit of sight itself. Another term for this is “finding pure Beingness” or “awareness of beingness itself”. Awareness of awareness.
This is obviously tremendously helpful. But how does one follow these same steps with physical pain? Because the recognition of I does not seem to alleviate physical pain.
This is the one thing that also keeps me wondering... How does one with real physical pain say I am not the body and therefore I am not the pain when I am clearly in a state of suffering? All the Mind chattering is relatively easy to recognize as imagined, but pain in the body is on another level... Can someone elaborate on this one from personal experience? I don’t think so...
@@mat.se57 I will do some research. I've been battling with chronic tonsillitis since Janurary. I recognise with great clarity when my mind creates unnecessary thought patterns that appear to amplify the problem. But dealing with the actual symptoms doesn't appear to have any spiritual solution. And can't have them out yet due to pandemic. Furthermore as you've said, if one isn't the body then how can one rest as pure awareness when suffering extreme physical pain or discomfort.
Pain is a difficult one because we are so well married to our bodies ! When I fractured one of my vertebrae ,I was in excruciating Pain ! After a while I noticed the pain was always changing , From say bad to very bad etc ! So I found great solace in the days when it was less severe ! In the end you have to find ways to cope and when you do ,you can start to live again !
True recognition of The Self means that one is truly abiding as The Self, when this happens then pain becomes secondary and almost non-existent to the bliss of The Self. Thinking that one is the knower or saying I'm not the body, thoughts emotions and perceptions is only a mental activity, it only used to point to the seer. One has to practice concentrating on fixing their attention on this seer and surrendering everything else even pain. When this concentration becomes effortless then there is an effortless abidance as Pure awareness and we no longer become distracted by forms we are effortlessly fixed on the formless, this is experienced as bliss. This is simple but takes perseverance and effort.
@@sanekabc It's more accurate to just say I instead of my I but we are using the English language and people will think we are mad, plus our minds believe that we are separate beings from everything and everyone. When we are in deep sleep there is only one I and we are in our true nature where there is no subject - object differentiality. We live in this dream world of separate I's but they are appearances only and have a beginning and an end. Eventually we all return to the One and realize we were never separate I's and never really left the One, we just dreamed we did.
@@sanekabc yes the self and the fear always arise together and are joined if not one. Another path (the tantric path) is to investigate the fear (not analyze, investigate what it is and what is made of etc) rather than the one who is afraid.
It seems so wildly impossible to imagine that the people still willfully in a comatose state after a year of this insanity... will ever wake up. I don't know what to think any more... Sometimes I'm certain it's all a mass awakening happening at turtle-speed, and all is perfect; divine timing. Other times... watching zombies in masks, salivating with excitement over the mark of the beast... that's when I lose my ability to hold on to hope... (I also heard David icke speak in an interview about the coming of 6g and 7g! How will humanity survive that?)
I SEE. I am it. You are it. ALL IS ONE .One is all. If you listen very hard. The truth will come to you at last. When all is one and one is all. AND SHE'S buying a stairway to heaven.
Unidentified with Emotions and thoughts of overthinking urges by aware of where it is. Just watch them. I am not my Body, not thoughts and I am not that I am. What am I. Ego/I. Not Ego/I. ...... Consciousness/Awareness!!!. Aware of being aware. Nothing. Nothing, formless...........
Am I not interested in myself (my nature) when I run after what I feel? In all honesty, if you insistently probed about the nature of 'I' (even though you very patient in the process ) then after some point I would almost begin to answer what you to hear Rupert😶. The spontaneity of knowing I is lost in describing it and when questioned about it. Isn't it? Sorry, honestly confused here 😔.
@@treemonster-xy7in44 maybe i will ask him or someone will, I hope.... during one of his retreats. His answers have a sense of conviction that goes beyond the mind no doubt, touches something deep within. Very comforting.. He makes me cry...in a good way ☺️
@@shoonyah Most people dont take an interest in themselves or their feelings, they analyze them and try to solve/change them. Actually interest in seeing and knowing and being with what this is... is healing. And different than trying to figure it out or why it is so or how to change it.
Read Who? is a question which has been made into a statement by the Author Ramanamma Who?. He has somethings he wishes to point out. Please pay attention . Read Who?!
@@ibperson7765 Sadly true. However Lomakayu does some great readings. Ramanamma Who? is a new prophet for the 21st century. The Book 1 is an enlightened teaching. Thank you brother please have a blessed day.
@@hemispheres500 Oh. I misunderstood your comment. You might need to write: The author named “Ramanamma Who?” Is the name of the book “all of humanity “ or ?? However, seems like a scam. $7.50 for 18 pages - stated upfront that it is only the first chapter of a three-chapter book. Are you involved w the book in any way?
@@ibperson7765 Appreciate your concern brother and I can assure you that it is not a scam. It is a book that will only be bought and digested by those who are already selected to read it. It is part one of a three part awakening. If and when you get to read it you will realise that what it says in three short chapters is remarkable
This approach works but the questioner has too much emotional blockage. He needs to work on the level of body in order to integrate these negative emotions. I feel the approach in this video is more intellectual whereas the questioner is stuck on the level of emotions
This has basically changed my life. Whenever I begin to feel an unpleasant emotion, I just ask who is feeling this? And the feeling just disappears. It actually magical to have found the key to peace and happiness. Before I relied on alcohol. Now I don’t need any of that. Just that simple question.
Yeah it is getting interesting for me too. I wake up and here is this guy. All his thoughts, feelings, sensations, his universe, senses of self / sense of identity (selfhoods) , even his consciousness... can be known. Who or what is all this? And who or what knows all this, knows even the “who” and what that has appeared? And where is this knower of all this? Anywhere? Or is he/it at the location of the various phenomena (including, again, this sense of identity itself)? Is the knowing of it different than it. Ive heard this called “the appearance”. Absolutely everything that happens even the stance I take toward it and what I think of it and how I feel about it and the “I”who is taking a stance.. is all knowable. The most clear “ultimate ME” which I thought was the final observer, can be observed (known) as it’s happening (and ultimately it’s impermanent and impersonal and burns if clung to and conditioned/caused and even kindve unreal, but shining). And it is a happening not a someone or something. Where is all this, this flowing apparent person and universe? Theres no such thing as me, or “here”. Or location. But it is known. Starting to suspect the knowing of it is love also, or bliss or light. I think describing what Nisargadatta call the light of awareness. And i believe im using “consciousness” the way he and the Buddhists would not the way the advaita (sat-chit-ananda) people would. This light of awareness can be aware of consciousness (as Im using the word). Well writing that out was helpful. Thanks.
Are you sure that sir?? I will try...
Even better is to love that feeling. When it feels loved, it quiets down.
@@plumeria66 I will do that! Thanks for the suggestion.
It took Spira and Daniel about 4 minutes to make me finally understand what I haven’t been able to grasp after 14 years of meditation. I only have the words «thank you» to offer in return, but they come from my heart.
Rupert spira sir is the gift to humanity...❤❤❤...
I just sobbed when Daniel asked “how do I do that?” ...and Rupert didn’t show any form of irritation or impatience..this seemed to open up my heart and the flood gates. It was beautiful to see and experience... kind, loving patience. I am grateful for this ‘unlocking’ and release. 🙏🏼 Thank you for your questions Daniel as they resonate and for Rupert’s wisdom shared 💞
Amen. Also: “All 350 of us saw that smile.” Beautiful
Damn right!
Greetings from Großbarkau, Northern Germany
Mmmmm “let’s do it now”. What a beautiful teacher.
You guys want a trick. Allow negative emotion, find the “me”/I Am, go back into the sad/memory/trauma/me and ask “is this Me.” Allow being to answer, then allow the negative energy to dissolve.
I healed decades old trauma in injury doing this!!
So kind of you to keep doing this when you could be dancing.
He is dancing silly. This is his dance
@@victorjcano he is da
He is dancing silly. Silly dancing
Good point haha but he could also be literally dancing 😹
@@DPSAX95 yes. Exactly
Rupert is so clear in his instructions. If you wanted to go into self-inquiry, you arrived at the place. Now stop the chatter and start the practice.
Like your slogan.
Thank you Rupert 🎉❤
Thank you Rupert Spiro
What a great answer and process to what seemed like an extraordinarily complicated question. I'm going to remember this one.
I find Ruperts generosity deeply heart warming
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for the person who ask and the person who answer. Gratitute!
What a compassion Rupert!
Thank you very much 👌❤🌹.
Thank you Rupert and Francesca for posting this video 🙂
Thank you 💖
Incredible 🙏🏼🤍✨✨
Because Daniel is closely involved in a spiritual search and "how to become enlightened", I was wondering when Rupert was asking him "tell me about that "I" - how much of that he simply learnt conceptually, and how much he directly saw experimentally. Many spiritual seekers now perfectly all the concepts, but direct realisation is not a concept.
And thank you Rupert Brother your inner sincerity is as unfathomable as the well of wisdom you share. LAW
Thank you so much
Getting more beautiful every day ! Thank u dear Rupert !!
the red check looks so cute like the grandfather in cartoon
RUPYYYYYY!!!!!!! ☺
Thank you Rupert for guiding us from the unreal to the real
THE only thing real is consciousness. Reality is imagined. Reality is a dream.
@@garmind4868 well... yes and no... is this only a verbal concept or a living experience for you?
@@StarLink85 the only thing existing is consciousness. But consciousness is not a thing. Its nothing. Easy come easy go anyway the wind blows, nothing really matters to me... i don't have the words to express what I mean. I'm gonna try anyway. Language is limiting and has blind spots. We have to read between the lines.
Reality is not composed of atoms and molecules. Dreams are not composed of atoms and molecules.
Reality and dreams are composed of consciousness. Reality is imagined. Reality is a dream. Everything in reality including reality is not real. Its imagined. Reality is made from and composed of consciousness which is the only thing in reality that is real.
@@StarLink85 i know it from direct experience. It scared the crap out of me. The feeling and Knowing God is the only being in the universe which doesn't exist and is not composed of atoms and molecules. ALL dualities collapse . self and other are 1. God is alone.
@@garmind4868 still to many I and you left...
Thank you Rupert! 😊
This was excellent Robert
Be the witness. Be in the conscious presence which you are. All others are not you, body, mind, thoughts, feelings, relationships. Be in the I AM. You are only the awareness consciousness from the arrival of the human body which was given a name of identity. You are only this only this from your birth to death when the manifested consciousness of this physco somatic human apparatus becomes part and was always part of the timeless, formless un- manifested consciousness. Till then be in the " I AM".
Rupert Sir..This is the practical of "Who am I" (నేను ఎవరు?) Of Bhagawan Sri RamaNa Maharshi. I have been reading a translated version of "Be as you are " and could relate a lot of that to your video today. I am waiting for the day when I can meet you in person. Thank you Sir.
Self-enquiry as a spiritual technique has been around at least 4,300 years.
Oh Rupert ♥️
I found this so helpful, and true ... thanks
So clear and on the point. Thank you Rupert.
Thanku rupert amazingly simple out of the complexity the mind has made it over the centuries
I am fascinated by the concept of self inquiry. Unluckily I still can't separate between the feelings and the awareness that's experiencing the feelings. The more I try to look inwards the more I find myself focusing on the negative feelings themselves. I've become very good at detecting and pinpointing where I feel the discomfort as soon as it starts building up, but I am still unable to get to the awareness that's experiencing it...
Gratitude Rupert!
So simple 😂! What an amazing demonstration 😊
Loving you more and more ❤️🙏 thanks for the truthiness 😌
Much love to you Rupert. Thank you. ❤️
So clearly experienced! Thanks from my heart
Once we know we are not our brain or our body then that in itself is enlightenment ! 😊
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Perhaps there’s a point at which trauma might need to be addressed. It can be helpful to have a really good trauma therapist who also understands the spiritual journey.
How else would someone consider labeling these sort of dialogues Rupert facilitates, if not therapy?
@@Zephyr.Lo-Renz Therapist helps deal with specific emotions, thought patterns, events, and relationships. Non-duality provides an overall framework. Both are complementary.
@@Zephyr.Lo-Renz Our beliefs that run our lives are very often subconscious. They need to be made conscious and let go, through working with and allowing our repressed emotions. This was what two enlightened beings, Lester Levenson and David Hawkins, did to achieve their liberation. IT is awareness of awareness that is revealed by itself when we hold onto nothing, when we believe nothing. It is often these turbulent emotions and resulting thought streams that take us out of self-abidance. If healed, awareness reveals itself, by itself, without effort.
I found Rupert a while ago, and his teachings are very piercing. But since using the simple technique of 'letting go', as taught by Lester and Hawkins, I've found the mind to be much, much quieter, subtler, simpler. It's made self-abidance exponentially easier.
Their techniques can be found in the book, "Letting go" by David Hawkins, as well as the Release Technique and Sedona Method (of which there is a free full course from 1992 on RUclips).
The book "The Secret of Letting Go" by Guy Finley is also a wonderful introduction to the topic.
Letting go is a choice - one we often don't believe we really have, because we're so used to holding on. But it can be seen with some willingness that we can release anything. That's all it is - a willingness. Just practice a little with it, and it's simplicity will reveal itself to you. Letting go is a simple relinquishing of beliefs, judgements and wants as they come forth, while remaining connected with the energetic component of emotions in the body, allowing them to be as they are. Eventually, this becomes a habit, and all things are surrendered and released as they arise, and quiet self-abidance is all that remains.
I had wished someone had shown me the power of simply letting go, when I look back on my spiritual path. I hope this helps someone out there.
God bless!
@@zain4019 Thank you for telling us about these methods.
@@Zephyr.Lo-Renz Rupert teaches the direct path of knowledge through self-enquiry and applying this knowledge to purify the mind. Other paths first teach purification of mind and training the mind to focus before the path of knowledge. A combination customized to the student is most effective.
Traditional paths don't mention therapy, but I found it surprisingly effective even when my excellent therapist had no clue about non-duality. As zain mentioned, the Self is revealed when the impure mind does not obstruct.
I like this one.
My perspective is a little different on the love feeling.
You mention that love sensation is a product of inter personal interaction (paraphrasing.)
I view only one at the root, and so at the root it's a sensation not of loving others but of enjoying creating. One likes to create. 🌹🎁
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First welcome your sadness with gratitude and then be interesting in the element of knowing
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I am grieving ! and separating from the sadness is hard ! I feel like I am selfish because I loved my litle girl so much !
The love you feel can never die , your love for one another can never be separated !
again, someone talks about separation from their feelings... That is impossible and the wrong thing to try anyway!
Thanks a lot!!!
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It sounds like the suffering man that he is helping has listened to Mooji's invitation.
I thought exactly the same. What I am always wondering is, is that a caught up suggestion.... I mean the thing with the unborn... Cause I cannot say that. What I can say 8s,i seem to be in the body and around it and I am kind of thinning away after a few meters. There is no felt separation between me and the rest of the world. What I cannot say is, that I will never die, I just don't know that
@@ailidhlalala1592 it’s all belief. No one knows the actual Truth. We just have a belief of the Truth. If the belief sets us free, go with that belief.
@@dipper888bp how could a believe set us free?
@@ailidhlalala1592 yes! I have exactly the same! I seem to be inside my actual head, though I observe that I think I am and i'm picturing my head in my head (oh dear) so that's probably why I think I'm in my body/head, and I observe that. (Anyone who lands in this thread by accident must think we're craaaazy!!).
I also don't know that I can never die, my awareness doesn't guarantee anything, I just am, but whether that it forever, who knows?
@@Jaqvander since I never met anyone who's not crazy, I don't really care about anyone's opinion about seeking peace... :)))
If I understood mooji and Spira right, you should concentrate on the one who is reporting that pictures you described.... I am also quite confused, but I think it is an ego tactic as well and lately I realised that I can see even the confusion about the confusion. I think we are both trying to resolve this with our brains and that's not possible.... Maby the knowledge of not dying is an intuitive knowing and nothing we can think of. But I find it relatively important that we are honest to ourselves cause I think the questioner in the video (and he is probably not the only one) seems to repeat a suggestion... Maybe he doesn't who knows
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I feel like he is giving Rupert the answers he thinks he wants and not his true answers. Like answering questions in a test after studying. Anyone else gets this impression?
I hope Daniel truly is able to separate himself from his sadness, loneliness, fear etc.
Yes it sounds like he is listing Mooji's Invitation. It seems to just come from memory.
Yes he has had prior lessons it seems so he answers with the jargon we use if you will.
Yes!
I was actually surprised he got to those answers so quickly , but I'd argue that its still possible to discover them superficially or without total clarification .
Isn't this a way to disconnect from parts of your being which in these situations were the sad and scared parts? I'm not critiquing but am genuinely interested.
The few times I've had clear and wonderful awakenings of my true nature is after I have been diving into the feelings that I have been running away from for a long time, and to finally embrace them has been the thing that set me free.
So I'm a bit confused when the answer here is to ignore the feelings and put your focus on the self instead.
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Please Rupert with respect I would like to ask you the following: in this conversation you asked who is feeling sad? Who is feeling scared?
The true self is perfect and does not feel sad or scared so is this not the mind ?
This is where I get lost.
I am certain you can answer this so please feel free to contact me and let’s get this resolved as I am certain there are others who also feel that we have either missed something and can’t quite grasp your lesson.
Surely you have the answer.
I am not my thoughts, feelings or emotions. I know I am consciousness which does not change, as this pure perfect consciousness is the one experiencing all of this as an observer. It must be the mind or ego that has these feelings. Not the one that observes all of this.
So why ask these questions if we already know this and are wanting to know the one that is experiencing all of this ?
Actually you are on the verge of the great mystery of Advaita Vedanta. So I dont think he can enlighten you on this question as much as you may think. Maya, the great illusion, is sometimes called, “That which isnt.” Meaning ultimately ‘was it even there?’, even when “I” thought it was, if that I is just made of awareness too. It is universal that the closer one gets to enlightenment, the less one thinks it matters whether this body-mind (which is not who we are) ever gets it, ie whether enlightenment happens or not. This is similar to asking whether the suffering was ever really real, whether the cause of suffering was illusory and the suffering real, or whether both illusory.
But your question is essentially: if the true self is always ok and even perfect, and never confused.. and the true self is who we are... then what is the problem? Why does it matter if the mind or ego etc is lost and scared? As I said, the more one realizes this (in the mind), the less it seems to matter whether enlightenment even happens. Enlightenment is not something that happens to the True Self. It’s when THE MIND learns it is only a projection of Atma, and learns that it doesnt exist per se but is a flow of phenomena. Can a flow of phenomena “learn”? Yes. When the flow never again contains neither the explicit belief, nor deep implicit visceral belief, in its own selfhood. When that happens the “mind” which isnt a solitary entity is said to have learned that, ie become enlightened. True Self is ever enlightened.
Well, for me these feelings are deep and real... I would NEVER label them 'ego' or 'mind'...
Reality has levels... Rupert is attempting to facilitate one to find/see/Notice/Experience the True Being... But these things are part of our human life, every one of us! They will sometimes visit us as we heal the whole Kaboodle...
You would not label them if you are looking after a beloved child; treat yourself the same way! You are trying to work it all out from 'where you are'...
The key is not to resist...
I updated my reply; you might relate to the second part more
@@ibperson7765 you nailed it kind sir. It’s not really a complicated question unless the question or the reader makes it that way.
@@ibperson7765 you are quite correct in the way you focus theoretically...
But I do not have any beliefs from nonduality which I have not seen myself: the two I guess are: 1. we are not our ego-me-self (that is not real from a very real, alive or ultimate perspective); and the Great Joy-Happiness--Beauty-Peace-etc. which is Already inherent in our being...
I am interested in Wholeness, in a humanistic way - which means catering for our own 'normal' self in the world too of course; and this, in a very real sense includes taking wise deep intuitive care of our feelings...
My point earlier/yesterday, was trying to say this... that the more I care for all parts of the being, it brings the Whole of myself Alive (-surprise, surprise), the more spiritual experience is just given to me left, right and centre (It could make someone want to start a new religion maybe, until they realise that would not probably be a good idea)... And like you imply near enlightenment, the less we care about it, the less we cling to it :)
Life for me is Amazing in its wholeness... and deny/denigrate/repress a side and it will come back to have its say...
It is easy to talk of for some; but it is all in the being, tasting life and experiencing...
Guys what is Rupert's yoga meditations about ? .
go and experience one yourself, then you will "know"..... there are on youtube some for free . Here is an example: ruclips.net/video/IZ8N0wk-VtM/видео.html
I hope this works with me
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Beautiful. But i didn't like when you did not answer to Sam Harris when he said that obviously billions of years ago, not even earth existed and so where was consciousness......... However i really appreciate and like your point of view ❤️
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I thought the I created by thought can die? I am talking about the I referred to by Krishnamurti. The person who asked the question answered or described a theoretical I that is talked about by various people.
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How to be interested to self? Please anybody help me.. Give me instruction please..
Rupert, I doubt that you have the time nor the inclination to read the comments made to your videos, nevertheless this comment is made for the benefit of those who may stumble across it. It is meant to be a summary, in a nutshell, of all that you have said over the years.
The prophet Muhammad penned this sentence centuries ago; it goes as follows, "YOU ARE NOT YOU BUT YOU ARE GOD, AND THERE IS NO YOU. YOU NEVER WERE AND NEVER WILL BE."
What can be added or taken away from this truth? Thank you Mr. Spira for your tireless contribution.
Which sutra is that a quote from?
@@artnanne I don't know ... all that I do know is that a guy named Bayani (?) interpreted Mohummad's sutra from the Arabic to English. I highly suspect tha Mohummad was deep into Sufi stuff, and that the entire sutra reflects just that. Research.
@@matrixgameoflife2649 Statements like that have been around for over four thousand years and hence predate Muhammad by thousands of years. Bhagavad gita. Shivasim. Others.
@@ibperson7765 yeah .. memories do have a way of filtering down. But this should be understood anyway.
The fear (anger, sadness, etc.) and the I that experiences it are one and the same principle. The I or ego assumes the form of anger or sadness, etc. and experiences itself as them
What we really are, i.e. the light of Consciousness,, is always peacfull and blissful and devoid of any I, emotion, impulse, etc.. The sense of I doesn't apply to Comsciousness. I is of the nature of ego and is always idenfied with something. The ego or I experiences, pleasure, pain, joy, etc. Consciousness is always free, peacfull and blissful. But it can experience fully itself when the higher and pure sattvic intellect, rests steadily and calmly in Consciousness. Then Intellect identified with Consciousness becomes luminous as consciousness itself.
without purity of mind, Intellect and inner mind freedom from suffering and the uninterrupted clear experience of bliss is not possible. Purity is the most important factor.
even before saying/asking who is this,who am i , you are the one that aware of those questions, actually you cant be other than yourself, not even in nanosecond. I am always i am
The final step into the Immortal is prior to, or rather beyond, even the most raw and primordial I-am; it is beyond being and non-being. The Impersonal, or the impersonal and empty Real, or The Deathless as the Buddha calls it. It is the indentity-less Absolute of the non-dual silence.
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How can we talk to Rubert
I tried emailing him before he was even as famous as he is now. Im thinking going to a retreat is the only possibility
What about animals? It seems they can have separation anxiety or depression for quite some time. Example is my dog when we leave the home. Are they "focusing" on the sadness? If not, what is the reason for their behavior? (I realize you may not specialize in animal behavior but thought it was in interesting thought).
I was thinking the reason we get into chronic bad thought (and so behavior) is because we over think things. But it seems we can think our way out of that too. Who would have thunk? :)
Hello, what is the difference between the thoughts that arise on their own and those that we produce ourselves (to think or find a solution, or solve an equation, or visualize an object, or analyze a situation, etc.).
In other words, is there a difference between thought produced (voluntary) and thought sudden (involuntary)?
What does this imply in relation to non-duality?
Ps: google translate.
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I investigated that aspect before, I found out they are basically the same as the willingness itself is a thought that we simply associate it with other thoughts that we call voluntary.
@@OmarAhmed-jo1cf Ok, so we can admit in this case that there is a relative author who produces thoughts, and a non-dual author who is only a spectator of the thoughts, the witness🤔. When we do an act of will to actively think, who acts? What is the nature of these thoughts? Are they the same as thoughts that arise when no effort is made?
@@exacn This is the progression of the enquiry ,keep going bro .
@@OmarAhmed-jo1cf thanks you Omar 🙏
As a meditator you will find that you get greater control of your thoughts and thinking process. As awareness increases, the randomness of thoughts sizes and insight, realization and wisdom take over.
Your thought activity also depends on your actions and sense of morality and ethics.
I repeat over and over to myself "I Am God" and my personal self appears to cling even harder to the mind.
I need help please. I can't shake the small self who's in turmoil and pain.
Who is the one who can’t shake the separate self?
Be patient and keep listening all is well. :) your thoughts are but leaves to the winds of grace.
You have to find reasonable rational arguments why you are Not god for this narrative to stop. Do that first. Some of that suffering will cease. Then you can continue on your spiritual path. It looks contra intuitive but it's not. It's a hurdle on your path which can be resolved by humbling down the ego. You are Not god. Nobody is.
Traditional non-duality acknowledges different levels of reality. In the absolute level, essence of God and I are same. At the transactional level of reality, God is the limitless and I am the limited. At this level, human effort and God's Grace are both needed. Also, effort is in my hands and result is not. So, I put in my effort and leave the result to God.
Most distress arises from being vested in the result. Distress prevents me from acting. Action is required for getting results. This is a vicious circle.
Relinquishing result to God frees my mind to act in the transactional world. This gives rise to better resolution of problems and calmer mind.
Reach out for support. Never give up!
When ever I do self inquiry I find that there only can be awareness of the body and nothing else.so if awareness is limitless why is it restricted to one body?if the body is in a small room that's the only thing awareness is aware of.body sensations, sights sounds,thoughts is all there is.
Our direct experience is only of one body and other bodies are seen by this one body when they come into view of the body which makes it the one bodies experience.thats all that can be experienced by awareness.
@@Batfink11 You can reach a point of being aware of awareness. Then can see is limitless. Being aware of your body-mind and finding it to be limited only means the body-mind is limited. Seeing the end of a ruler only tells you the limit of the ruler not the limit of sight itself. Another term for this is “finding pure Beingness” or “awareness of beingness itself”. Awareness of awareness.
This is obviously tremendously helpful. But how does one follow these same steps with physical pain? Because the recognition of I does not seem to alleviate physical pain.
This is the one thing that also keeps me wondering... How does one with real physical pain say I am not the body and therefore I am not the pain when I am clearly in a state of suffering? All the Mind chattering is relatively easy to recognize as imagined, but pain in the body is on another level...
Can someone elaborate on this one from personal experience? I don’t think so...
@@mat.se57 I will do some research. I've been battling with chronic tonsillitis since Janurary. I recognise with great clarity when my mind creates unnecessary thought patterns that appear to amplify the problem. But dealing with the actual symptoms doesn't appear to have any spiritual solution. And can't have them out yet due to pandemic.
Furthermore as you've said, if one isn't the body then how can one rest as pure awareness when suffering extreme physical pain or discomfort.
Pain is a difficult one because we are so well married to our bodies ! When I fractured one of my vertebrae ,I was in excruciating Pain ! After a while I noticed the pain was always changing , From say bad to very bad etc ! So I found great solace in the days when it was less severe ! In the end you have to find ways to cope and when you do ,you can start to live again !
I hope you find your answers!
True recognition of The Self means that one is truly abiding as The Self, when this happens then pain becomes secondary and almost non-existent to the bliss of The Self. Thinking that one is the knower or saying I'm not the body, thoughts emotions and perceptions is only a mental activity, it only used to point to the seer. One has to practice concentrating on fixing their attention on this seer and surrendering everything else even pain. When this concentration becomes effortless then there is an effortless abidance as Pure awareness and we no longer become distracted by forms we are effortlessly fixed on the formless, this is experienced as bliss. This is simple but takes perseverance and effort.
But what is that I without the fear? Isn't that I only evident in relation to something else?
Your true I is independent from everything else and simultaneously is everything and everyone else.
@@joeserianz6205 Then why is it MY true I?
@@sanekabc It's more accurate to just say I instead of my I but we are using the English language and people will think we are mad, plus our minds believe that we are separate beings from everything and everyone. When we are in deep sleep there is only one I and we are in our true nature where there is no subject - object differentiality. We live in this dream world of separate I's but they are appearances only and have a beginning and an end. Eventually we all return to the One and realize we were never separate I's and never really left the One, we just dreamed we did.
@@sanekabc yes the self and the fear always arise together and are joined if not one. Another path (the tantric path) is to investigate the fear (not analyze, investigate what it is and what is made of etc) rather than the one who is afraid.
It seems so wildly impossible to imagine that the people still willfully in a comatose state after a year of this insanity... will ever wake up.
I don't know what to think any more...
Sometimes I'm certain it's all a mass awakening happening at turtle-speed, and all is perfect; divine timing.
Other times... watching zombies in masks, salivating with excitement over the mark of the beast... that's when I lose my ability to hold on to hope...
(I also heard David icke speak in an interview about the coming of 6g and 7g! How will humanity survive that?)
I SEE. I am it. You are it. ALL IS ONE .One is all.
If you listen very hard. The truth will come to you at last. When all is one and one is all. AND SHE'S buying a stairway to heaven.
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Unidentified with Emotions and thoughts of overthinking urges by aware of where it is. Just watch them.
I am not my Body, not thoughts and I am not that I am. What am I. Ego/I. Not Ego/I.
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Consciousness/Awareness!!!. Aware of being aware. Nothing. Nothing, formless...........
Am I not interested in myself (my nature) when I run after what I feel?
In all honesty, if you insistently probed about the nature of 'I' (even though you very patient in the process ) then after some point I would almost begin to answer what you to hear Rupert😶. The spontaneity of knowing I is lost in describing it and when questioned about it. Isn't it? Sorry, honestly confused here 😔.
I feel confused as well ! How about this its only our minds that are confused aha! 🤔 thats just my view of it, I wish you a happy day ✌😇
@@treemonster-xy7in44 maybe i will ask him or someone will, I hope.... during one of his retreats. His answers have a sense of conviction that goes beyond the mind no doubt, touches something deep within. Very comforting..
He makes me cry...in a good way ☺️
@@shoonyah Good idea!
@@shoonyah Most people dont take an interest in themselves or their feelings, they analyze them and try to solve/change them. Actually interest in seeing and knowing and being with what this is... is healing. And different than trying to figure it out or why it is so or how to change it.
Read Who? is a question which has been made into a statement by the Author Ramanamma Who?. He has somethings he wishes to point out. Please pay attention . Read Who?!
Ramana Marharshi. Has some audiobooks on youtube. Died before audio recordings ever made of him.
@@ibperson7765 Sadly true. However Lomakayu does some great readings. Ramanamma Who? is a new prophet for the 21st century. The Book 1 is an enlightened teaching. Thank you brother please have a blessed day.
@@hemispheres500 Oh. I misunderstood your comment. You might need to write:
The author named “Ramanamma Who?”
Is the name of the book “all of humanity “ or ??
However, seems like a scam. $7.50 for 18 pages - stated upfront that it is only the first chapter of a three-chapter book. Are you involved w the book in any way?
@@ibperson7765 Appreciate your concern brother and I can assure you that it is not a scam. It is a book that will only be bought and digested by those who are already selected to read it. It is part one of a three part awakening. If and when you get to read it you will realise that what it says in three short chapters is remarkable
This approach works but the questioner has too much emotional blockage. He needs to work on the level of body in order to integrate these negative emotions. I feel the approach in this video is more intellectual whereas the questioner is stuck on the level of emotions
Yes. As are many of us.