Suffering Is Contained in a Single Thought
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- A man wants Rupert to help him understand suffering and explore his fear.
From the weekend in Amsterdam, September 2017. For access to the full recording see link: non-duality.rupertspira.com/wa...
Timestamps:
00:00 Understanding the feeling of fear and our resistance
01:32 The experience of fear
02:50 Take refuge in the now, feeling free of our thoughts
04:02 Fear is not the problem, it is our resistance
04:45 The single thought that controls our fear
06:03 What is fear made of?
07:15 The activity of consciousness
10:00 Peace and happiness is at the heart of your fear
11:00 Moving closer to the experience
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I just saw the title and it already makes sense, you cannot have two thoughts at once, just one quick thought after another, so if you have a negative thought you just create a chain reaction and a follow up story you give to it which creates more suffering, if you catch the chain reaction and thought pattern early on you can free yourself from further suffering by breaking it. You aren't your thoughts, thoughts can't suffer, it's the meaning and attachments you give to your thoughts that makes it seem real.
Isn't meaning a thought too?
Love the comment. Helped with current presense. Thank you
"Experience the fear without any resistance to it... from that point of view, is there anything problematic about it, without resistance... without reference to the past, to thinking, to comparing it to anything, and just experience the fear, is it uncomfortable? Is there any motivation in you to move away from it?"
"Go closer to it, take refuge in the experience itself. Come so close to the experience that you can't separate yourself from it."
"Take refuge in the now. You're always at peace in the now."
"Whenever you're suffering, your suffering is contained in a single thought. 'I don't like what is present, I want what is not present.'"
"Your fear is made out of yourself, your consciousness."
"At the heart of your fear, you find happiness, you find peace... you find yourself."
Wow. For me, this is one of Rupert's most poignant talks. Thank-you, beautiful soul:)
With every video of Rupert, I gain at least 400 more enlightenment points :)
Lol, thanks for the laugh😂
@@akakonoha I would humbly invite you to collect some humour points and you will be enlightened! :)
@@akakonoha No worries mate :) It is true that what Rupert talks of has to do with "the core", "emptiness", "nothingness" out of which everything arises. One part of the problem is that we should not pursue "nothingness" or "enlightenment" as an object. To think we were enlightened from start would help, but on the other hand if we walk around "like Jesus" we surely got it wrong.. That's why it seems so difficult to convey the most simple and fundamental truth of our being. All the best for you!
@@AndreasDelleske so glad you're already enlightened 😊 all the very best to you 👈
"“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of the problem.” J. Krishnamurti
@@akakonoha I wouldn't say that; I don't know. To some, insights come gradually, to some more sudden, some see and then forget or almost forget and everyone is still different, habits, character etc. don't really disappear.. however everything may change. Much love !
The Stillness is Shiva and the Energy Movement is Shakti... 🙏🙏🙏
Dear Rupert, this specific teaching of how to get close and experience the feeling is so, so helpful! Thank you so much!
CURE NOT ONLY FOR FEAR BUT FOR ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS, DEPRESSION, SADNESS, LONELINESS, HOPELESSNESS, YOU NAME IT .......... LOVE YOU RUPERT!! YOU ARE A SCIENTIST, A PRECIOUS GEM, Thank you for helping so many of us to heal, to REGAIN CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES, TO UNDESTAND WHO WE REALLY ARE!! Forever GRATEFUL TO YOU UNIVERSE, TO YOU RUPERT!!!
"Fear itself is not a problem. Its resistence to it."
The guy is simply too good. Live long, friend.
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
Absolutely masterfull; such deep understanding. Thank you, Rupert, for your service. 🙏
Nice explanation, Guru Rupert. This is valuable piece of advice in today's living, working day to day.
Thank you very much Rupert!!!
Another outstanding video Rupert, much appreciated mate. I also enjoy receiving your daily quotes. Your are awesome : )
Who does Rupert's flower arrangements? So beautiful!
Seem artificial to me
Ive seen jean Klein do it too. his teacher's teacher. very nice :)
Amazing! Beautiful explanation, love it. thanks to Master Spira!
much respect to this man. i have known about him for a long time but this is the first time i actually took some time to listen to him.
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤
Thank you ever so much. I’ve been desperately trying to resist for about ten years and finally here is an absolutely wonderful explanation of why it’s conceivable to go against what seems right, so thank you very much. You are a complete joy to listen to and have been helping me immensely.
P.S. Those flowers are exquisite!
Whenever I turn to face the fear, I find that there seems to be a bigger fear located within it and this bigger fear is one of losing my place in this world, in this experience of who I am, of annihilation. But I address the resistance without including "resistance of ..." in this. I just release resistance overall and this helps.
Yes, we fear letting go will bring us loss, not understanding that until we do, it is the loss of suffering. Resistance is deeply conditioned.
@@angelariley5403 true
This is very clear. Thanks so much Rupert！You are one of very few teachers who can speak in such clarity. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Muchas gracias Rupert!!!
Thank you so much!
Thank you beautiful experience 💚
Not only suffering, but “you” as a separate entity is contained in a single thought rising and falling. Some thought emotion or sensation takes place, then there is an identification with it, “pulling” and storing it as a slice of “me” in the memory bank of the brain.
I've seen all Ruperts videos or I thought as much.. this understanding is so simple and his expression of it is beautiful.
Simple, but false.
i have come to love this guy as i have grown
I am the same. I didn't like watching him at first, my own ego being envious of his openess. Now, I'm grateful and love Rupert and his videos, books, talks, etc. Has helped me so much
@@thedentistbakery2010 Which books of his are best? There are a dozen or more of them!
Thankyou so much.
Thank you!
Thanks Rupert! So it's the resistance (the thought) we have about the fear that causes suffering not the experience (fear in this case) itslef. If we accept any feeling which is a movement of awareness and become one with it as awareness, we can even find happiness in even fear, too. So perfectly and so clearly said that even I can understand clearly. You solved all my problems with this insightful talk. Thanks, God bless you.
So amazing 💜
Thank you 🙏
Damn, this guy smacked me upside the head with an experience rather than just another teaching.
I wanted to say without resistance there’s no fear. But also it IS extremely uncomfortable with no reference, that’s how it’s designed to be!
Yes, resistance and thought creates suffering...but if you go into the fear, look at it deeply, and understand it - fear often vanishes. Fear is due to ignorance and illusions of the mind. Really, fear too is caused by thought and resistance.
Thanks for the share 🙏
Thank you
Amazing
All fear in the end boils down to fear of death - annihilation! Every separate self using all means possible and impossible (for example trying to download ones consciousness into a computer) to escape its fundamental dilemma - trying to survive but inevitable doomed to fail- is what makes the world go round. It's pure ignorance what makes us suffer and heartbreaking. Butt until the truth is realised, it's the nature of the game. 😘
Beautifully explained!
The 2 approaches of 'dealing' with fear...I think you said 'turning away' and 'turning toward'...Turning away still involves a relative comparison with ego..I'm not this, I'm not that..thats my ego and I am deeper consciousness..I tried this for a long time but kept being pulled into an egoic response. Turning towards, however, involves you 'catching' the feeling early on and not associating it with ego, but instead accepting the feeling and 'letting it go' before associating with your egoic social filters..this I have found works for me so much better and doesn't bring my ego in at all.
Marvelous
Thank you so much 😊, it’s a very wonderful lovely explanation wowww I love you 😘.. thanks 🙏 all the best
My Dear wonderful master my Sadguru thanks a lot
I’m frustrated with this segment because I want to understand it but I don’t. I suffer from severe anxiety and I want to totally understand what he is saying so badly. Especially when he says you can find joy and happiness in your fear. I really really wish I could understand this concept.
Jason Kowalski anxiety is made of sensations, take a very close look at the sensations. Vipassana/mindfulness is a good well taught path for first cultivating heightened awareness/concentration (takes practice to build up but worth it) and then aiming that power at anything going on in your experience including the worst sensations. Things up close in this manner have a funny way of sort of falling apart like looking at a horrible image up close on a screen. It’s just pixels, not good or bad. It’s trippy stuff and very powerful. I deal with anxiety and find it profoundly helpful
Rob Maric thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it a lot.
Jason Kowalski my pleasure!
It seems to me that fear energy itself is a resistance to the energy of Peace in us. The presence of fear energy in me indicates I am in resistance to my own true nature. And yes, I would like to be stable in that(you mentioned: who would want that?), and not be satisfied "living" an intense energetic rollercoaster ride.
Very good
So beautiful 🌹
Perfection
Tough stuff to work through.
Bueatiful!💓🙏🕉
Thank you, very practical explanation, of tantric life
sweet
The questionnaire is right, if there is only consciousness, resistance must be a movement of consciousness. Obviously consciousness likes to experience resistance and limitations.
The flowers are nice
Chiel Klamer it’s just a little sad they have to die earlier than nature intended.
@@AndreasDelleske Humans are nature too but yeah....i was just trying to find anything positive in this video and you're right..i failed 🙂
Rupert, there is no fear when there is no separation.
" Suffering is never in the event.. " There it is..Summarizes the entire condition of the flawed human mind..
Independent of thoughts fear has physiological reactions which are unpleasant. Heart palpitations, stomach in knots, rapid breathing,
Without the thoughts to maintain them, the bodily sensations subside in time. Also, Rupert’s body meditations help in this process (such as the one on TH-cam called “The Uncreated Light of Pure Knowing”.)
Fear hurts my heart.
I love how it looks like he's talking to the vase of flowers on the tabel😂❤
In other words...you are perfect the way you are
Come to Australia Rupert!!
In EFT, we do the same thing.. we acknowledge the pain and ultimately release it.
yeah.true. I use it too. hows it working for you
The truth was seen from when apparently watching one of Rupert videos. (Didn't take too long for the mind to claim it as an experience) and what was instantly obvious was that there never was a separate self or a Rupert or a job or anything else. There is only the truth doing an amazing job of tricking itself into believing it could be a separate self.
Oimsi100 beautifully said ♥️
how could fear not be uncomfortable? even if is just the experience without the thoughts involved.
Dont be afraid to be in the now
yes it's uncomfortable.
It feels like pure nonsense for me now. Thank You very much for Your beautifull work 🌹
Thank you!!!
deep bruh
Everything is true.
Magnifique : i am this, I am this , I am this .... The tantric path
Wonderful
Fear is the emotional reaction to the current contents of thought, which involve memory.
In the absence of thought, only the most immediate and dangerous threat can bring fear.
Outside of this possibity, fear depends on remembering and imagining bad outcomes in the past.
Awareness can witness this useless process of negative thinking.
You are self harming psychologically speaking.
Stop it, and the fear will go away - HAS to go away.
Yes- far easier said than done
But in my experience, is really is that simple.
I would say, don't become the master that has to whip the inner slave into shape
You are creating that duality inside, pretending you are the master,
when in fact you become the slave, the one enduring punishment.
Yes, emotions, not Consciousness.
I'll try it
I love how Rupert’s work is perfectly supported by A Course In Miracles!
I have had fear just grip me without a proceeding thought. I’m sure it’s the general thought of being a separate self underlying things, but just fear out of nowhere with no conscious thought process.
Thankfully that had diminished a lot now though. I could wake up in the morning feeling joyful until I really am awake, then as so as I was aware I was awake... bam... a horrible darkness and fear to fight for the rest of the day. No specific thought involved.
@@jameswaterhouse-brown6646 It is the separate self fearing dissolution.
This dude is a real "Guru". In sanskrit a guru literally means dispellar of darknes.
Fear is exciting
The fear is not the problem when we are present with reality and not associating mind ideas to give actuality to the fear.
How about natural resistance. It's also in the mind...
Fear is in connection to something that is unknown. If we have courage to face it directly and explore it the fear will vanish! It is not easy but I am sure this is the experience of most of us?
Reima Väinölä yes but only to the people who watch these videos and truly understand. Took me ages 😂😂😂
That sounds like an intention to have fear vanish. For me, there is a place where fear is neutral without thought and it doesn't matter to me if it vanishes or not. It just is.
But when you panic in social situations how can you go inside your self and go close to the fear? You can not have a conversation with someone at the same time?
Can we say like we are running it is activity of pur like our feeling sensation, thought but when we are still it is pure consciousness. So when we are still the activity does not happen so activity is real but temporary but you (as stillness) is true really
They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (Yajurveda 40:9)
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti i.e. created things (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith pg. 538)
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Rupert is a good boy
Where is the sound,? It is almost impossible to hear.
I want Rupert Spira, Sadhguru and Eckhart Tolle, On One Stage 🙏🙏🙏
Sadhguru is kind of a clown though. But who am i to judge.
It would be fun if they did something unrelated to their ordinary talks. Maybe if Rupert and Sadhguru did nuru massage with eachother, that would be so humorous.
@@jonber9411 If you think so then definitely you should not believe them nor follow them .... Dont waste your time bro with them... But I have found lot of values from their teachings and I love them 🙏🙏🙏
I got it. The separate self, what resists fear, is the animal-self survival instinct. To be free of that resistance means to experience the bliss of pure consciousness in the now...but also become not that great at survival b/c eating and starving would be seen as one--the illusion of the separate self. I wonder if anyone has ever considered the possibility that the experience of the united self and consciousness beyond conditions is the illusion, and not the world that animals experience.
Who here has experienced hapiness by facing deeply his fear like suggesting Rupert ?
Why give something that can be starved 9:30 the attention (resistance) to feed it?
what is my fear IS being in the now?
But what if you become the emotion.. do you not lose yourself in it?
It seems to me that suffering is not a thought, but a certain kind or quality of experience.
Any explanation about anything( use of words)is, THOUGHT, though,we don't recognize it as such
Ed What is an example of something that is not a thought?
RAJASEKAR KUNJITHAPATHAM Let’s not mistake thoughts with that to which the thoughts refer.
What Rupert describes as the Vedantic path is only the first step in a two-step process in Advaita Vedanta. It would be good if he made that clear.
Linda McKenzie He usually does say that it is a 2-step process. This is just an excerpt from a longer discussion.
If Rupert said everything it would be a very long video 😉
I have just recently realized the truth in what he is saying after 50 years of soul searching. I wish we had had TH-cam when I was a kid/young adult. And if people just realize a fraction of what he is saying..... What a wonderful place this would be 😊
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I was suffering, and I really mean suffering, for my whole life. I always felt that it is somehow unnecessary, that I am doing something wrong, but I could not step out of it. What a waste of life.
Remember that telling yourself it was a waste of life is just a subtle continuation of your suffering
@@TissaUnderscore Tissa, unfortunately it is not subtle. I don't know what to do, how to fix it. I feel exhausted. N
@@nadimares7153 try to notice that every point of your suffering boiles down to the thought of “this situation should be different than it is”. Try to notice that when trying to “fix” the situation youre actually adding more of the “this shouldn’t be” thoughts. Then accept feeling uncomfortable and realize that there is no suffering unless you lable it as such. The thing that is causing suffering is the trying not to suffer. Let go of that and see what remains.
@@TissaUnderscore Thank you for your concern. N
@@nadimares7153 stay strong!
I’m a little confused. If Rupert is a Vedanta teacher why is he recommending a tantric approach?
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Fear is not neutral. It is an energy flowing through negative belief filters. It's whole purpose is to be unpleasant so that you challenge those unhelpful beliefs. If you merely watch the fear, it's true that it will pass but it will return when the stimuli that activates it returns.
hengrave5 true, but for whom is this a problem? By practising watching without resistance or attachment, each time it returns the ripples will be less and less intense, it will be starved of the energy it requires to feed on and it will die out naturally
No, I resist because I don't like the sensations fear produces. So I am resisting the experience of fear, init?
If I see a red traffic light and I take it out of context - it doesn't alarm me, I can simply take it for what it is and so I keep driving and perhaps hit another car. I completely acknowledge the principle of being with the fear. But isn't the problem the idea that the fear actually means something like a red flag from the subconcious we just don't understand (yet)? "I have a bad feeling about this" you say and then start investigating why you have a bad feeling and maybe then you make a decision based on that. Isn't this a question of whether you can or cannot trust your gut / instinct?
I guess the fear we are talking about here is more about a general one rather than specifically connected to a certain situation. But still I assume that feeling miserable (fearful) in your life could actually MEAN something and you could figure out how your life would be better, e.g. eat more breakfast? Or could being with the fear be exactly the best way to understand why the fear is arising.. oooh i see.. i guess
This has also been my question. So there is a fear and there is an intuition. Sometimes when i feel bad about someone, it's bcz of fear rooted in past bad memories with people. And at sometimes I'm actually right about the person. Just don't know in that moment, whether this fearful thought is coming out of a past memory pattern or is my gut right.
But why does frear manifests?
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Watched it 5 times and going for a sixth and still don’t understand. This guy has a gift for complicating things