I have often said that I enjoy "boredom", now I realise that I am being at one with awareness, It was never boredom i.e. not doing a practical activity.
When a thought arises, see that it's experienced in the same space where you experience sight, sounds, smells, feelings, etc... Go back and forth between the thought and sight or sound to confirm this and instantly the thought collapses.
I'm glad something special doesn't happen. One of the biggest fears of liberation for me was a sudden, huge alteration in how I see the world. I don't want some big event, I just want clarity. I have seen the veil of the separate self drop from watching one of your self enquiry videos saying to 'look for who is upset/angry/needing'. I saw it as emptiness and it was like a filter in the middle of my head just dropped and I could see what was in front of me instead of not seeing life, and just watching my cluster of thoughts and emotions in a daydream. It didn't last long but I understood what it was, and it's made me a lot less fearful of accepting the experience when I feel that surge of fear that occasionally happens during mediation.
And what makes it so intimate, so terrifyingly new and beautifully intimate, is that this one is 'I"- it is our true self and is what always has been our true self, but one we had not even considered was there. In reality, this I Am is all there is.
@@zain4019 "You" are the "awareness" which is aware of every object including your thoughts, emotions and feelings. When you say "John's laptop", John has to be different from his laptop. When you say "John's pen" , John has to be different from his pen. When you say "John's body, John has to be different from his body. When you say "John's mind", John has to be different from his mind. John is awareness the way you are awareness.
Seven years ago, I had two very radical experiences of zooming out from the personal self. I had always wondered what these experiences were in relation to full-blown enlightenment and had always been trying to replicate them. Then I started to hear "enlightenment is not an experience" which always confused me, given that my experiences were definitely experiences. But this really opens my eyes to part of what this means. I was just like he describes with too much focus on the world turning out a particular way. So, I felt this strong sense of relief and joy during the experience that I expect to happen again once I reach enlightenment. But this colors my experiences and taints my perception. This will help me to let go of more. Thank you Rupert. (:
The Diamond Net I’m not sure but I might have had this emptiness of any thought for minutes as a boy of 14 or so. My realization was that I knew this is all I need to be or know. I had no idea what it was so I put it aside and reidentified with someone who still had to learn or takes up a task (helping to solve the energy problem which I did try). Only recently since I see humans are going nowhere with that problem and it looks like we have ruined the planet I hope to see this again but maybe it’s impossible - which is just another thought. And I know hope also separates me from what is. A wish to talk to Rupert or someone with that realization about this arises. I’m now 40 years older and don’t cling to much anymore. I have let a lot of sadness pass by.
This is an absolute delight. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and it was an absolute delight. "Mindful Mastery: Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World" by Kyle Ash
At the center of the field of awareness is the source of creation. We are that to an unknowable/ inexhaustible extent. Awareness is our way of knowing the source in its inherent mysteriousness.
Perhaps it would help to say that You are not your thoughts. You are the one that can witness your thoughts, watch them, feel your butt on the chair, become aware of your own breathing... You are The One that CAN SEE and experience all this.
True. Focusing on our awareness will diminish the effect of good and bad experiences that happen in our lives that affect us emotional in negative and positive ways.
“When I see the immense order of the universe (and especially the brain of man), I cannot escape feeling that this ground enfolds a supreme intelligence....I would say also that this intelligence is permeated with compassion and love.” ~ David Bohm
As in contrast with being in persuit of something , or being contracted by external events, it was more the search for what made me so happy that made the bliss feel at home.
Jared how do we be aware of being aware if the body always gives off a sensation? I say this because rupert and others say be aware of awareness not the objects.. But the body is considered an object.. How then can we ignore the sensation of body if its naturally present?
i think we naturally fluctuate between levels of pure knowingness and the experience of the seperate self and its our lifes learning to realize and be able to understand and live happily within both.
R Spira put it out very well “”the teaching says... that the presence of awareness is behind the mind actually, it’s not behind the mind, the screen is not behind the movie because all there is to the movie is the screen so the first step is to discover the witnessing presence of awareness behind the experience and the second step in the midst of experience.." at 6:00.
🌅l AM - The Ever🎁Spirit - The Eternal👁️ Seer , and beside Me - l - There lS None Other🙏There lS NO 'we' , ONLY l AM , IS , That l , lS , our shared Undiferentiated Being☺️ur Unconditioned Uni-Versal🌠S e l f that was Never born Nor could Ever pass away☺️ because l AM Life Eternal"🌅Thank ☺️You for🐦 sharing 🌺 'Rupert'🌈
The major thing that these teachers never seem to point out is that, whilst anyone can intellectually understand that they are Awareness or the Witness of experience etc, the difficult part is actually TRULY realising it i.e. that awareness which you are becoming directly conscious of itself or rememberes itself. Also you cannot think about or feel this Awareness because it is not objective. If you could sense it in any way then it obviously would not be you. It seems people are always trying to find this Awareness somewhere in experience, but it cannot be found.
TheYuutuba you can speak with your "higher" self which is the everlasting "you" or individual universe [perception]. This is the being that remembers old lives and can answer your personal questions [among other things] because time is not a factor to your "higher self". Confused?
Legions and legends can you leave out „old lives“ and replace it by „collective consciousness“ or prove where your „old lives“ have taken place please? The second would be a knowledge humans tried to prove for millions of years and failed so far.
I love Rupert's teachings. If someone helps me ...if consciousness is one i.e. universal then why we can't know each other's consciousness. We we vibrate at the consciousness level then is it possible to communicate and read each other's thoughts. Gratitude 🙏
Kiran Kurwade in a certain way, we can sometimes read others thoughts because we are them, just not all the time of everyone. Another power you have is hiding your thought from anyone. Which power do you want now that you don’t have already?
Being able to read ‘other people’s’ consciousness presupposed people have separate, independent consciousness from us, and that there are people who are separate selves from our own consciousness. That is not the case, things just are as they are
Once I experienced awareness, albeit briefly, on a fairly regular basis, my otherwise extremely peaceful mind became agitated. I could not think clearly, snapped at people something I've never done for the last several years and was very disoriented as if my mind was at war with me. I stopped practicing for a few days and became peaceful again. Can you please explain this phenomenon? Why was I so disturbed and at unleavened? Thanks!
Thank you for getting us to see one self for it self. I am beginning to sense more starting with a lot of headaches and pressure. It would be great help to look at the pressure/headache directly. The pressure is mostly in the head area. I feel this is over developed by self enquiry. Can the pressure be balanced by developing attention. In lower part of the body as the head chakras are over developed?
Perhaps Eckhart's experience was much deeper and more profound than Rupert's experience. Maybe the experience of being separate from the mind was more complete, total and permanent rather than temporary.
“The witnesses of our experiences” (My experiences) "MY SANKOFA" (1965 to 1987) The most difficult thing was leaving my comfort zone and traveling to places where there is no 911... No telephones, no computers and surviving... Trust me it was a born again experience However, I had always dreamed of being an explorer… Anyway; 5 years ago (2015) I had a DNA done and discover that 83% of my ancestor’s DNA are from the ASHANTI AKIM’S area; where I had been adopted and lived from 1965 t0 1976,. See “MY SANKOFA” Memoir.
So awareness is what i think of as brain aka intelligence. So where is this analogy of space or stillness coming from? Because to me this knowing intelligence is vibrantly alive
Thanks Rupert for your videos. Is awareness, just like thoughts and feelings, in that they are both brain activities, to lesser or greater degrees. The retreat from thinking , into the awareness, may bring about peace, but is this just a coping mechanism. Great, but sometimes I here you mention God, how does this fit in to what could be considered self help. PLEASE HELP.
I can understand that awareness is to which everything is happening...but I cannot experience being aware of the awareness...i mean i understand the concept that everything is awareness and i can relate to it, but i cannot realize what the experience wpuld be like...for example, once someone realizes that they are the pure awareness they can hold on it even in sleep...because even in sleep awareness is still there...can someone help w.r.t what does it mean to experience the awareness of awareness
The knowing is not a thing. It is not an experience, it is not aware. it is knowing. It “ the knowing “ knows everything, even though things do not ultimately exist. it knows itself as knowing. Knowing knowing itself but not as an objective self. It's just made up of knowing ng knowing. Words are impossible to describe this, it can only be described from a dualistic perspective. As perceived. I notice knowing. Yet the knowing and noticing are one knowing. Not two, not even one. To say it is one is going too far. Yet to describe for perceived others, we use words. The words may point. They can do no more. If one does not know it, then one must move from object to objectless. This can be very frightening initially.
Why are the sweet bees disappearing? ruclips.net/video/I_gxzlO7Fow/видео.html - Yellow Jacket SUPER NEST | Wasp Nest Removal | Wasp INFESTATION Could they be just hiding?
A couple decades ago a lady named Suzanne Segal (who has passed away) wrote a book entitled: Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self. In it she gives the account of how she was standing at a bus stop and WAM!!!, it was as if conscious awareness was watching over her shoulder and she was no longer the person. The Witness stayed. She had no "spiritual" knowledge and thought she was going insane.
speaker itself misguided and misleading his audience, philosophizing ostensible /seemingly awareness. which is cultivated awareness ,confusing with naturally natural awareness that is not depend on cultivated awareness /consciousness .which is before this (experience) intellectualizing awareness .truth is bitter for copied knowledge .thank you
Howard Manley Religion - A blind faith in "me". Everything the me believes is the religion that upholds "me". Belief is experienced as knowing, which upholds the belief in knowing, which upholds the idea that holds "me" together, which is "I know that I exist".
Rupert is not expounding any beliefs that he is asking anyone to believe in. He is just saying here is reality and the way it works. It is a knowing that does not depend on believing anything, in the same way that you know that you exist and you know that without believing in anything.
Howard, ask yourself: is the Source (God) of all life and universe -- less or infinity more than what our our feeble mind's can understand? You intrinsically know the answer. Rupert is pointing to what is infinite. But you are free -- like billions of others -- to belittle what has no boundaries and engrave an image in your mind and so be a proud child of a lesser god. That said, there must be something within you wanting to break free from religious dogma and anthropomorphic deities, or you wouldn't be here.
I have often said that I enjoy "boredom", now I realise that I am being at one with awareness, It was never boredom i.e. not doing a practical activity.
When a thought arises, see that it's experienced in the same space where you experience sight, sounds, smells, feelings, etc... Go back and forth between the thought and sight or sound to confirm this and instantly the thought collapses.
Consciousness is the knowing element in every experience
I'm glad something special doesn't happen. One of the biggest fears of liberation for me was a sudden, huge alteration in how I see the world. I don't want some big event, I just want clarity. I have seen the veil of the separate self drop from watching one of your self enquiry videos saying to 'look for who is upset/angry/needing'. I saw it as emptiness and it was like a filter in the middle of my head just dropped and I could see what was in front of me instead of not seeing life, and just watching my cluster of thoughts and emotions in a daydream. It didn't last long but I understood what it was, and it's made me a lot less fearful of accepting the experience when I feel that surge of fear that occasionally happens during mediation.
The experience of knowing that someone or something is aware of your awareness is both terrifying and beautiful. It is a life changing experience
And what makes it so intimate, so terrifyingly new and beautifully intimate, is that this one is 'I"- it is our true self and is what always has been our true self, but one we had not even considered was there. In reality, this I Am is all there is.
@@zain4019
"You" are the "awareness" which is aware of every object including your thoughts, emotions and feelings.
When you say "John's laptop", John has to be different from his laptop.
When you say "John's pen" , John has to be different from his pen.
When you say "John's body, John has to be different from his body.
When you say "John's mind", John has to be different from his mind.
John is awareness the way you are awareness.
What gentle medicine for my day. 💜🙏
Seven years ago, I had two very radical experiences of zooming out from the personal self. I had always wondered what these experiences were in relation to full-blown enlightenment and had always been trying to replicate them. Then I started to hear "enlightenment is not an experience" which always confused me, given that my experiences were definitely experiences. But this really opens my eyes to part of what this means. I was just like he describes with too much focus on the world turning out a particular way. So, I felt this strong sense of relief and joy during the experience that I expect to happen again once I reach enlightenment. But this colors my experiences and taints my perception. This will help me to let go of more. Thank you Rupert. (:
The Diamond Net I’m not sure but I might have had this emptiness of any thought for minutes as a boy of 14 or so. My realization was that I knew this is all I need to be or know. I had no idea what it was so I put it aside and reidentified with someone who still had to learn or takes up a task (helping to solve the energy problem which I did try). Only recently since I see humans are going nowhere with that problem and it looks like we have ruined the planet I hope to see this again but maybe it’s impossible - which is just another thought. And I know hope also separates me from what is.
A wish to talk to Rupert or someone with that realization about this arises. I’m now 40 years older and don’t cling to much anymore. I have let a lot of sadness pass by.
I think of enlightenment as happening in moments. Timeless.
@@whirlingsu1 Another way to say it, is that moments happen in The Light of Awareness.
How is it going now?
This is an absolute delight. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and it was an absolute delight. "Mindful Mastery: Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World" by Kyle Ash
He is right - Satisfied. It a relief.
Thank you
Thanks Rupert! The movie is so enchanting, so addictive, so enslaving, we the screen "feels" helplessly/happily trapped and over powered.
That's why we NEED suffering. As we suffer we loose interest in the movie.
At the center of the field of awareness is the source of creation. We are that to an unknowable/ inexhaustible extent. Awareness is our way of knowing the source in its inherent mysteriousness.
Such a blessing you are :) I am so so grateful to you for sharing your teachings.
Perhaps it would help to say that You are not your thoughts. You are the one that can witness your thoughts, watch them, feel your butt on the chair, become aware of your own breathing... You are The One that CAN SEE and experience all this.
Honesty Fenix so, I am the butt-feeler. I like it :)
Incredible discussion. Many Blessings.
True. Focusing on our awareness will diminish the effect of good and bad experiences that happen in our lives that affect us emotional in negative and positive ways.
“When I see the immense order of the universe (and especially the brain of man), I cannot escape feeling that this ground enfolds a supreme intelligence....I would say also that this intelligence is permeated with compassion and love.” ~ David Bohm
As in contrast with being in persuit of something , or being contracted by external events, it was more the search for what made me so happy that made the bliss feel at home.
He is very clear 👍
"some people have to sit in park benches for 2 years to realise this" is a reference to Eckhart tolle 😄
haha thought of the same thing!
not to realize but to acclimitize, he said. This was after Tolle's realization when he sat at a park bench for 2 years
Tolle is also wonderful :)
Tolle was a weak human, and weak his character remains also After awakening
I like your teachings Rupert.
Wonderful.understanding.bahut.bahut.dhanyabad.Rupert.sahab.thanks.
Once I figured it out, it's so amazingly simple and close. It's so comfortable and effortless.
Jared how do we be aware of being aware if the body always gives off a sensation?
I say this because rupert and others say be aware of awareness not the objects..
But the body is considered an object..
How then can we ignore the sensation of body if its naturally present?
Who specifically 'figured it out?' The mind??
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information Rupert. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤
i think we naturally fluctuate between levels of pure knowingness and the experience of the seperate self and its our lifes learning to realize and be able to understand and live happily within both.
🙏so clear and simple…thank you Rupert
R Spira put it out very well “”the teaching says... that the presence of awareness is behind the mind actually, it’s not behind the mind, the screen is not behind the movie because all there is to the movie is the screen so the first step is to discover the witnessing presence of awareness behind the experience and the second step in the midst of experience.." at 6:00.
🌅l AM - The Ever🎁Spirit - The Eternal👁️ Seer , and beside Me - l - There lS None Other🙏There lS NO 'we' , ONLY l AM , IS , That l , lS , our shared Undiferentiated Being☺️ur Unconditioned Uni-Versal🌠S e l f that was Never born Nor could Ever pass away☺️ because l AM Life Eternal"🌅Thank ☺️You for🐦 sharing 🌺 'Rupert'🌈
Being cannot become enlightened. It is the Light... Infinite, Presence of Awareness.
🙏7 years later🎯 Thanks
I love this man
Maravilloso, gracias
So beautiful ♥️
The major thing that these teachers never seem to point out is that, whilst anyone can intellectually understand that they are Awareness or the Witness of experience etc, the difficult part is actually TRULY realising it i.e. that awareness which you are becoming directly conscious of itself or rememberes itself. Also you cannot think about or feel this Awareness because it is not objective. If you could sense it in any way then it obviously would not be you. It seems people are always trying to find this Awareness somewhere in experience, but it cannot be found.
TheYuutuba you can speak with your "higher" self which is the everlasting "you" or individual universe [perception]. This is the being that remembers old lives and can answer your personal questions [among other things] because time is not a factor to your "higher self". Confused?
You need not intellectually understand it. Because you are That Awareness. Are you saying you are not aware of being aware?
Legions and legends can you leave out „old lives“ and replace it by „collective consciousness“ or prove where your „old lives“ have taken place please? The second would be a knowledge humans tried to prove for millions of years and failed so far.
And the person begin to live there as Ruper said and the realization of it.
Well said!
Gee thanks Rupert, I had been wondering what the witness was almost forever.
I love Rupert's teachings. If someone helps me ...if consciousness is one i.e. universal then why we can't know each other's consciousness. We we vibrate at the consciousness level then is it possible to communicate and read each other's thoughts. Gratitude 🙏
Kiran Kurwade in a certain way, we can sometimes read others thoughts because we are them, just not all the time of everyone.
Another power you have is hiding your thought from anyone. Which power do you want now that you don’t have already?
Might be , but the Ego mind dimension it's hard to get out
Being able to read ‘other people’s’ consciousness presupposed people have separate, independent consciousness from us, and that there are people who are separate selves from our own consciousness. That is not the case, things just are as they are
Thanks Gregg
🤗 thanks ❤
“I belong to that category”
07:56 - 09:06
awareness is a symptom of life. vibrating life-energy is primary.
Once I experienced awareness, albeit briefly, on a fairly regular basis, my otherwise extremely peaceful mind became agitated. I could not think clearly, snapped at people something I've never done for the last several years and was very disoriented as if my mind was at war with me. I stopped practicing for a few days and became peaceful again. Can you please explain this phenomenon? Why was I so disturbed and at unleavened? Thanks!
Suresh Chandani 900ll
Suresh Chandani To me It would seem like, all your bad stuff have been brought to the surface. You have to sée.
Thank you for getting us to see one self for it self. I am beginning to sense more starting with a lot of headaches and pressure. It would be great help to look at the pressure/headache directly. The pressure is mostly in the head area. I feel this is over developed by self enquiry. Can the pressure be balanced by developing attention. In lower part of the body as the head chakras are over developed?
"some people sit on park benches for 2 years", you were refering to Eckhart Tolle?
thats all u got from the video?
no?
I noticed that too
Yes! It's Eckhart😆
Perhaps Eckhart's experience was much deeper and more profound than Rupert's experience. Maybe the experience of being separate from the mind was more complete, total and permanent rather than temporary.
perfectly described :)
“The witnesses of our experiences”
(My experiences)
"MY SANKOFA" (1965 to 1987)
The most difficult thing was leaving my comfort zone and traveling to places where there is no 911...
No telephones, no computers and surviving...
Trust me it was a born again experience
However, I had always dreamed of being an explorer…
Anyway; 5 years ago (2015) I had a DNA done and discover that 83% of my ancestor’s DNA are from the ASHANTI AKIM’S area; where I had been adopted and lived from 1965 t0 1976,.
See “MY SANKOFA” Memoir.
So awareness is what i think of as brain aka intelligence. So where is this analogy of space or stillness coming from? Because to me this knowing intelligence is vibrantly alive
Thanks Rupert for your videos. Is awareness, just like thoughts and feelings, in that they are both brain activities, to lesser or greater degrees. The retreat from thinking , into the awareness, may bring about peace, but is this just a coping mechanism. Great, but sometimes I here you mention God, how does this fit in to what could be considered self help. PLEASE HELP.
I can understand that awareness is to which everything is happening...but I cannot experience being aware of the awareness...i mean i understand the concept that everything is awareness and i can relate to it, but i cannot realize what the experience wpuld be like...for example, once someone realizes that they are the pure awareness they can hold on it even in sleep...because even in sleep awareness is still there...can someone help w.r.t what does it mean to experience the awareness of awareness
The knowing is not a thing. It is not an experience, it is not aware. it is knowing.
It “ the knowing “ knows everything, even though things do not ultimately exist. it knows itself as knowing. Knowing knowing itself but not as an objective self. It's just made up of knowing ng knowing.
Words are impossible to describe this, it can only be described from a dualistic perspective. As perceived.
I notice knowing.
Yet the knowing and noticing are one knowing. Not two, not even one. To say it is one is going too far.
Yet to describe for perceived others, we use words.
The words may point. They can do no more. If one does not know it, then one must move from object to objectless.
This can be very frightening initially.
I wonder what Suzuki thought at that moment.... „now her again...“?
Ha ha ha, or maybe "yes, shes right" :)
🙏
Why are the sweet bees disappearing?
ruclips.net/video/I_gxzlO7Fow/видео.html - Yellow Jacket SUPER NEST | Wasp Nest Removal | Wasp INFESTATION
Could they be just hiding?
not every one has to crash in realisation.
A couple decades ago a lady named Suzanne Segal (who has passed away) wrote a book entitled: Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self.
In it she gives the account of how she was standing at a bus stop and WAM!!!, it was as if conscious awareness was watching over her shoulder and she was no longer the person. The Witness stayed. She had no "spiritual" knowledge and thought she was going insane.
JamesThomas
Wow, interesting. I’ll look into that.
Isn't knowing the feature of awareness?
Advaita vedanta
Rupert - I can help you improve your audio quality! Ooops, I am not in my presence. Let me realign myself to not want anything from anyone!
What's wrong with the audio quality??
To notice is more than awareness. Noticing requires 2 syllables lol
speaker itself misguided and misleading his audience, philosophizing ostensible /seemingly awareness. which is cultivated awareness ,confusing with naturally natural awareness that is not depend on cultivated awareness /consciousness .which is before this (experience) intellectualizing awareness .truth is bitter for copied knowledge .thank you
As a believer in God I find this is foolishness, however maybe the way I'm perceiving this message is not correct( just saying)
Howard Manley Religion - A blind faith in "me". Everything the me believes is the
religion that upholds "me". Belief is experienced as knowing, which upholds
the belief in knowing, which upholds the idea that holds "me" together,
which is "I know that I exist".
Rupert is not expounding any beliefs that he is asking anyone to believe in. He is just saying here is reality and the way it works. It is a knowing that does not depend on believing anything, in the same way that you know that you exist and you know that without believing in anything.
Howard, ask yourself: is the Source (God) of all life and universe -- less or infinity more than what our our feeble mind's can understand? You intrinsically know the answer. Rupert is pointing to what is infinite. But you are free -- like billions of others -- to belittle what has no boundaries and engrave an image in your mind and so be a proud child of a lesser god.
That said, there must be something within you wanting to break free from religious dogma and anthropomorphic deities, or you wouldn't be here.
Our Creator is found within. This is all Rupert is saying- to look within to find the Divine, for we one.
Alex m you had to go through that process , to realize that you exist? 🙏