The Nature of Consciousness, Rupert Spira
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2015
- www.scienceandnonduality.com/
This talk was recorded in May, 2015 at the SAND gathering in Italy.
All experience appears in, is known by and, ultimately, is made of Consciousness. Therefore, our knowledge of anything is only as good as our knowledge of Consciousness. But who or what has knowledge or experience of Consciousness? Only Consciousness itself. Consciousness knows itself as ever-present and without limits, that is, eternal and infinite. It knows itself in itself, as itself, by itself. Everything appears in accordance with our understanding
of Consciousness. Thus, to know the true nature of anything - such as the mind, the body or the world - it is first necessary to know the nature of Consciousness itself. That is why all the great spiritual and philosophical traditions state that in order to know the ultimate reality of the universe, one must first know the nature of oneself. For this reason, the science of Consciousness is the ultimate science, and it is one that humanity can no longer
afford to ignore. Once we have realized the eternal, infinite nature of Consciousness, all experience - that is, the mind, the body and the world - is discovered to be a modulation or vibration of Consciousness alone. ~ Rupert Spira
For more information about Rupert Spira please visit: non-duality.rupertspira.com/
Rupert is one of the best dreamed charaters the infinite consciousness has ever produced in its sleep!!
Value judgment
@@Islamic777resistor ... Labeling 😄
So true
but hes sooooo boring and colourless
@@omtatsatification Just like the mind (consciousness) that's perceiving him.
59:15 - "I would suggest that the experience of love is simply the knowledge of our shared being. When we love, we feel one with the other. Love is the experience of our shared being." - Rupert Spira
... & the feeling of falling in LOVE with EV'ER'Y-THING-IS THE MOST-SCARIEST LETTINGOEST MOMENT OF THEM-ALL-!!!
UNTILL *IT-IS* HAPPENED ...
... &, them BREAK-A-WAY$, DIDIT 2 THEMSELVES 4 THEMS-ELVES, &SO WE ARE LEFTALONE TOO GETON WIT-HIT NOW-THEN,
&SO,
YAR, BLESS EV'ER'Y ONE-YAR, BLESS EV'ER'Y THINK-IN EV'ER'Y WAY ... &SO,
LOVE IS-ALL-WAYS & ONLY-EVER EQUAL TO HUMILITY & GRATITUDE÷IN CONFIDENT PROWHESS *THAT* STABILISES *LOVE* ... (IS-ALL) (IS)={DOO-WING)hav-ing(DONE)it-is😢😮😂 ...
So if you aren't sharing you cannot have self love?
@@AntiGroup he says it in this talk ;-)))
This video is my zen! Rupert Spira is an eloquent orator and able to explain the Nature of Consciousness for anyone to understand with clarity and ease. Enjoy transcending the levels of consciousness with this gifted spiritual philosopher.
I watched this video about 5 years ago as a 15 year old and my understanding of reality fundamentally shifted. Even to this day, my understanding deepens. I am quite certain that this process will continue until the end of “my” life.
Thank you for sharing.
So glad this has happened to you so young. How do you reconcile living your “everyday “ life” with your understanding? My suffering is getting worse.
@@ronnie4863 "It is the person you imagine yourself to be that suffers, not you" -nisgaratta
@@samiavci3080 u r so right. Thanks for the reminder
Don’t kid yourself
Rupert Spira is a spiritual teacher unlike any I encountered in my life. Just watching a few hours of his presentations on TH-cam, is equivalent to years or decades of insights from dozens of spiritual texts. He is not just satisfied with presenting his wisdom but takes an extra loving effort to answer questions that we can verify within our experience now.
He is an example for us all.
I used his practice yesterday and found amazing results interpersonally.
spiritual teachers are nothing more than frauds and they make their money off the belief that the truth is something you need to be taught
Try Nisargadatta Maharaj
The teachings of Rupert Spira have changed my life. In fact these teachings are basic teachings for human to lead a normal life and relationships.
Can you outline some of his basic ideas that have helped you lead a normal life/ sustain healthy relationships? Thanks in advance!
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1. Treat others as you would treat yourself because you are literally the same infinite consiousncess and that separation is an illusion.
2. Getting to know another deeply is simply getting to know a different part/aspect of yourself that you have not yet experienced. In doing so, you will also be getting to know your precieved self better.
3. Don't be afraid to merge souls with or sacrifice yourself for others whom you deem worthy, as that is literally brining you closer to your essence.
4. Realize that anger, jealousy, fear and doubt have no place in a relationship based on unconditional love. If you are feeling these things, you must take a deep look at yourself and motivations for being in said relationship.
5. Don't blame your shortcoming in life or relationships on others, as you are the universe in essence, you are always somewhat complicit in your failures. There is no growth in blame or playing victim. Take note of your percentage of blame for failure, learn from it and allow room for your soul to grow so as not to let said failure repeat itself. Wisdom comes through experiencing both the good and the bad (remember that)
* Obviously, if you have childhood or life traumas that prevent you from loving yourself, then you would first need to seek therapy before any of this will manifest.
Good luck!
One of the greatest lectures I have ever heard. Thank you Rupert.
I would have preferred if he'd take his own advice and remain silent .
Would have made more sense...?
He does that in another video with swami sarvapriyananda Buddha at gas pump channel. It depends on the context.
Like water being poured into water. 💧
@@2msvalkyrie529 The emperor has no clothes
I can listen to this man all day and night.
I can’t. My head exploded after one hour. Truly mind boggling.
Absolutely remarkable in just one video he gives the whole show away!🤯
What utter cobblers
The best description of consciousness I have ever heard. This is brilliant!
See: Bernado Kastrup
True, I am aware of my thoughts and feelings in my mind, sensations of the body, and perceptions of the world around. After repeated practice, perhaps, Awareness feels the real me. (I identify myself as Awareness.)
But it is still My thoughts, My feelings/perceptions/sensations that I am aware of. It is still very much localised.
When and how does Awareness begin to feel infinite and eternal?
Can you help me with this?
True, I am aware of my thoughts and feelings in my mind, sensations of the body, and perceptions of the world around. After repeated practice, perhaps, Awareness feels the real me. (I identify myself as Awareness.)
But it is still My thoughts, My feelings/perceptions/sensations that I am aware of. It is still very much localised.
When and how does Awareness begin to feel infinite and eternal?
Can you help me with this?
This is EXACTLY the understanding I came to while on mushrooms. Changed my reality forever.
You are the best explaining such difficult and abstract matters with so much clarity.
Thank you for your service to humanity.
Absolutely 🙏
Master.
True, I am aware of my thoughts and feelings in my mind, sensations of the body, and perceptions of the world around. After repeated practice, perhaps, Awareness feels the real me. (I identify myself as Awareness.)
But it is still My thoughts, My feelings/perceptions/sensations that I am aware of. It is still very much localised.
When and how does Awareness begin to feel infinite and eternal?
Can you help me with this?
This is the first exposure to Rupert Spira for me. I was delighted to hear another exponent of Consciousness being the true nature of all that is.
I’ve been reading Ksemaraja and Abhinavagupta over quarantine and as much as I’ve enjoyed doing so, it is so refreshing to hear these ideas stripped down to their essence and coming from a cultural context that is closer to my own.
Thank you Rupert🙏 Such a complicated, and one of the most important, issues in life explained the way you do is such a treasure for the meaning of my life. I feel a lot of gratitude for this teaching
True, I am aware of my thoughts and feelings in my mind, sensations of the body, and perceptions of the world around. After repeated practice, perhaps, Awareness feels the real me. (I identify myself as Awareness.)
But it is still My thoughts, My feelings/perceptions/sensations that I am aware of. It is still very much localised.
When and how does Awareness begin to feel infinite and eternal?
Can you help me with this?
Just this man's voice alone calms me let alone the inspiring things he says.
Of all the videos I've seen in the past month, this is one of them.
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Thank you. Wonderful to hear someone talking about Consciousness in such non-dogmatic terms.
"Love is the experience of our shared being."
Yesss!!
is that still in your mind? lol
True, I am aware of my thoughts and feelings in my mind, sensations of the body, and perceptions of the world around. After repeated practice, perhaps, Awareness feels the real me. (I identify myself as Awareness.)
But it is still My thoughts, My feelings/perceptions/sensations that I am aware of. It is still very much localised.
When and how does Awareness begin to feel infinite and eternal?
Can you help me with this?
Avid Rupert fan. Thought I heard it all, then this video 49 minutes in and brains everywhere (mind blown) 🤯
Me
Too
I've just watched a masterpiece of the Universe. Thank you, Rupert!
Yes definitely a masterpiece 💜
So apt and poetic.
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Rupert is a blessing to us all 🙏❤
The WAY HOW Rupert EXPLAINS, TEACHS, SHARES this UNDENIABLE TRUE IS so, so AMAZING!!! The UNIVERSE HAS ENDOWED HIM WITH MORE THAN ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING Including HUMBLENESS, GRACE, JOY, GRATITUDE, LOVE, COMPASSION, PATIENT................. for his OTHER EQUALS. I am SO, SO, SO THANKFUL FOR HIS TEACHINGS!! Rupert you are BRINGING LIBERATION TO THIS WORLD, YOU ARE MAKING LIBERATION, YES LIBERATION POSSIBLE, AVAILABLE TO ANYONE LOOKING FOR THE TRUE. This IS PRICELESS, ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS. WOW!!!! ETERNALLY GRATEFUL to you CONSCIOUSNESS and to you RUPERT. Rupert, your efforts and sacrifices, to DISSEMINATE this true has not and will not be in vein!! Love you Rupert!!!
You are right
A voice from the Void. I feel such joy in the presence of such clarity. Much gratitude to you, Rupert! Namaste.
Rupert's youtube channel is absolutely priceless. Ive been watching all the videos ❤️🙏
I've Watched a lot of Rupert's videos but this one got me to shift my attention and understand how everything was occurring within consciousness. Thanks for the "practical" exercise
Devendra Tak sane here on watching a lot of his stuff. Mind blown countless times prior. 49 minutes in and I’m like “Holy...”- he’s just amazing in being able to articulate all this but this video is like a compilation of everything he’s done to date and concentrated into this one.
Ahh...if anything did occur outside of consciousness, we wouldn't know about it would we... Come on. All he is saying is that " we perceive what we perceive". No duh.
@@sirgoatofcheese That’s what he is saying. It’s not some marvellous truth he is talking about. He is saying, whatever we have perception about is just perception. So where is this world of matter? This is a simple truth. If you were looking for some juicy, out of world enlightenment stuff, then sorry.
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I see at least two problems with his teachings:
- 99 percent of Janes on the streets of New York will never ask these profound questions.
- We can very well argue that the physical world is an illusion or a dream of the universal consciousness, but we all want it to be REALLY real, because without REAL trees producing REAL oxygen any philosophical discussion will quickly disintegrate into a REAL fight for the last breath of fresh air. I find it to be a smashing argument for the reality of this world and life.
Whenever I see Rupert on TH-cam I "slow down" in my fast moving life I don't know why I do that ?❤️❤️ From Kerala, India.
FINALLY, Rupert Spira explains what Ramana Maharshi was saying so that I can understand. Thank you Rupert Spira Thank You.
I've been away from Rupert's teachings for a couple of years. Today I'm back to this really amazing session. In just one hour I receive so much clarity. Thank you
rupert is gem among masters, thanks a lot
Rupert is a true Master. I have been so helped by his teaching.
Rupert, (if you read this!) you've just made my understanding so much clearer. This helps me to apply what you say about going back much more effectively than ever before. Thank you 🙏
Que joya de charla es esta, la he escuchado muchísimas veces y nunca es la misma charla.
It's his voice that is the secret. I have to listen over and over again cause he can put me to sleep sitting up.
Hahahaha 😂yep get carried away
It IS great for napping. 😊
POWERFUL Video!! This INFORMATION IS PRICELESS. Thank you UNIVERSE for Rupert Spira, for USING HIM TO BRING LIBERATION, UNDERSTANDING WHO WE REALLY ARE. This is PRICELESS!!
Death of the ego, what great freedom to know who or what I really am. All I need to know is the now, every thing else is already taken care of. What great relief.
Thank you from the heart for sharing your knowing, i appreciate it and grateful for having been led to your channel, peace.
The far most powerful explanation of what is reality and counciousness …❤
As far as the question from the audience member who accuses the brain of being the problem, the brain is neutral like every other organ in the body. It is innocent and it knows nothing of the Mind or the imagination, but like Rupert said there is simply a correlation in the brain where it is involved in the process of thought but in a purely impersonal way, the way the liver processes the blood and lymph that run through it. But the liver doesn't "imagine" itself to be diseased or insane, it is simply functioning properly or not, and we don't pay attention to it the way we do to our "brains", which are simply Arbiters of thoughts that come from what we think of as the Mind. What I am trying to say is most of our brains are entirely healthy like every other organ of the body. The brain is also responsible for so many different functions throughout the body in addition to processing thought and what we consider our darkest most distressing thoughts may be more like pesky mosquitoes to the brain rather than some terrible defect generated by the brain itself. If crazy thoughts are evidence that the organ of the brain itself was defective it would make sense that many other functions of the body that are influenced by the brain would go Haywire also. But this is of course not true. Even so-called crazy people function very well as an organism on many levels. What people perceive as so distressing and disturbing in thought is the result of imagination and belief, not faulty brain tissue. How else can you explain that even regular people can feel crazy one day and fine the next. Or you might go through months or even years of deep depression and then come out of it and feel fantastic!
Interesting, you should listen to Rudolf Steiners lectures about specific organs etc
You are not (just) your thoughts.
You are not (just) your body
But whill engaged in grief we don't see that. (Denial anger fear frustration negotiations depression and ultimately... Surrender
I can vouch for this. Diagnosed insane, no hopes given, news broke both my parents to tears. Now 15-20 years later I feel cured and can’t recall what my previous problems were. Time actually does heal! Or, is there time? 😉
The main focus of my work right now is to detox people from stuff like heavy metals, industrial chemicals that are found in Foods, medications, and cosmetics, environmental toxins like mold and air and water pollution. I feel like this is a huge crisis right now, the elephant in the room, the individual toxic cumulative load that each person carries and only grows bigger every day. It is in many ways more threatening than climate change. I swear to God it is easier to wake up from thought and Trauma right now than it is to overcome for instance a side of your mouth that is full of metal as a starting point for everything else you have to endure!
One of Rupert's best!! Thanks!!
what a beautiful presentation of consciousness...thank you for you creativity, knowingness and ability to share with such clarity...Namaste, Catherine Jansen
Summed up best by a brief passage from the 1950s by Avatar Meher Baba:
The Lover and The Beloved
God is love. And love must love.
And to love there must be a Beloved.
But since God is Existence infinite and eternal
there is no one for Him to love but Himself.
And in order to love Himself, He must imagine Himself
as the Beloved whom He as the lover imagines He loves.
Beloved and lover implies separation.
And separation creates longing;
and longing causes search.
And the wider and more intense the search,
the greater the separation
and the more terrible the longing.
When longing is at its most intense point,
separation is complete,
and the purpose of separation,
which was that love might experience itself
as lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows.
And when union is attained, the lover knows that
he himself was all along the Beloved, whom he loved
and desired union with;
and that all the impossible situations that he overcame
were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path
to himself.
To attain union is so impossibly difficult
because it is impossible to become
what you already are!
Union is nothing other than knowledge
of oneself as the Only One.
----Meher Baba
Beautiful
Outstanding
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Very nice, thank you.
ani le dodi ve dodi li
Mushrooms blows my mind up, Rupert does the excavation work and is such a blessing to hear this. And if you think about what he is saying and HEAR . My god this is so profound. Everything is consciousness? I’m reeling from this knowing. I can hardly believe I believe this.
The first time I took mushrooms I had the experience of time becoming non existent, I felt like no time had passed since I was a little kid. It was really unique and I couldn't stop laughing, the kind of laugh that made me cry with delight and epiphany. I kept saying wow, I cannot believe this, looking at my ape like hands. They are a wonderful tool and am looking forward to trying them again soon! Take care, Peace 👍
And every epiphany or revelation is more like remembering it than it being new.. words like “of course..” and “ah.. exactly “
Come to memory
I love Rupert and Adyashanti. I found out about Rupert through a video called Stillness Speaks - The Nature Of Things.
Edit: oops I meant The Transparency Of Things. I actually had to go and make sure I got the title right.
Yep --- those two are my favourites --- really crisp and clear
im starting to understand the nature of counciousness more and more. this was very helpful. connects with what ive heard from other teachers and from studying religion.
thank you
Thank you. Amazing gift Rupert has been provided by awareness.
Thank you for your teaching , i have been struggling with this concept of Consciousness for 1 year , but i started to realize that the Consciousness only can be aware of itself , i think that i have awakening glimpse from time time , i started to realize things that are so obvious and still nobody see them.
Rupert IS brilliant!!!
So much clarity and honesty. thank you rupert.you are a true master.
I'm not sure I'm convinced of this but since the death of my father I have begun to remember my dreams with amazing clarity every morning and I have noticed that within those dreams I am often in a cycle of different dimensions as different characters or entity's and just before I wake up to come back in to this life on earth I always feel and hear myself saying please God no I don't want to go back into that. I should add I'm living under some very negative circumstances hence why I'm looking into conciousness but I'm still fairly convinced we are all meat computers intombed in our own heads.
I'm with you and many others who think the same. About 5 years ago I learnt about NDE's and looked into the "Soul Trap" YT channels and got a shock with the information! That's why I'm deeply into Non-Duality to figure out how this matrix works and how to get of it out once and for all. I believe the secret is to understand what you truly are as divinity as opposed to who you think you are as a finite person. Hope things get better for you
What an absolutely masterful performance.. Brilliant!
There is Nothing Beyond This!!
You are the entire universe!
+D Graf
When you go...the universe goes with you
No I'm not.
I am in awe. I am aware. I am. This was enlightening.
i loved that moment at the end when the host told Rupert to come back at 5pm, and he almost lost touch of non-duality!!
Such a restful voice, thank you for sharing. Namaste.
Hello world, this is for my own thrill!
From 17:32 thru 18:56 is Mind Blowing!!!!!
Amazing how he spirals you into the fact that we should be researching awareness with just 2 questions 19:15
This is The Ultimate, Universal, Ancient Teaching of Ultimate Reality!
Rama
is that why he's on youtube?
@@yoya4766 people like you are gonna have to go before we ever get to transcend
This is a very interesting talk, but I can't help thinking if our experience/awareness is the medium of reality, we're in trouble! Human experience is very limited (for example visible light is only a fraction of all wavelengths); we cannot experience the universe, as he says, but we also cannot experience mathematics, yet mathematics are definitely a way by which the universe can be known...so while interesting, a lot of things don't jive for me...
We are lucky to have access to the ancient wisdom, it being presented on a platter as it were, for our easy understanding, thanks to the erudition of modern day masters like Rupert Spira, and the availability of technology.
this is really enlightening. the first step towards recognizing what we all are
Thank You Rupert. Love You so much!
WOW ! Thank You !!❤❤❤❤❤
This recognition has changed my life! Thank you Rupert.
Fantastic lecture, really helped me experience a taste of the ultimate. Thank you Rupert
This literally explains EVERYTHING.
Love is simply the knowledge of our shared being
You have really explained the deepest layers of our being! Your description of consciousness is amazing! We have very little knowledge of ourselves. It is for the neuroscientists to investigate the ultimate basis of our life and its multiple manifestations in more tangible scientific terms. Rupert, you have gone very deep into the origins of our perceptual world.
Rupert is trying sooooo earnestly to bring to us the understanding that comes to us in innocence and In unassuming.... It is for one to see ....that he is very patiently devicing a path to the pathless....As if it were possible... Almost taking us toward............
earnest gratitude.... Sir.
Thank you dear Rupert I love you and thank you for bringing clearance in my life You are an amazing wonderfull being.
Beautiful, wonderful, compact, analytic,simplified and detailed explanation about the Nature of conciousness to Love of life. Long live ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Wowwwww what a extraordinary wisdom….I bow to your knowledge breathtaking
Great man.
Thank you Rupert for this. I have been trying to understand this nature of consciousness. " The moth needs to be consumed to experience the flame"
A profound life-changing lecture.
This is called Enlightenment! An Enlightened Teacher!
This is scary, the truth of all this!
And I've studied Pan Psychism, Donald Hoffman and many others.
What a gift to have discovered this at 70!
Deep,deep gratitude(
I'm enlightened and I enjoy hearing him explain pointers to stillness!
What was yours enlightenment story
After reading the power of now by eckhart tolle everything changed. He has had Rupert on as a guest. I'll listen to any spiritual master who points to spirit because it resonates with me 100%.
Continuing from previous Comments.
ISHVARA (GOD) is BLESSING and enabling to convey my Gratitude to HIM and all.
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doctor spira the legend mr rupert
Thank you Rupert 🥰 for your so inspiring memories ❇️ you send out such healing 🤩 love forever
From me to you to us 🙏🥰
Amazing! I can grasp the understanding right now, but may have to watch numerous numerous times for consciousness, I AM, to automatically accept matter does not really exist. Talk about deep thinking!
Rupert is the the best. You changed my life 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks Rupert and Thanks for posting!!
1:14:44 In my own experience of myself, I am eternally present. I have no limits, and thus I am infinite. I cannot be disturbed, and this I am peace itself. I cannot be grandiose or diminished by any appearance of the world and thus I am fulfilled. I know no other, and therefore love itself. I am no object and then this beauty itself. That is what awareness has to say about itself. I have no age, because I do not appear in time. I cannot be touched or moved or harmed.
All of life, all of this, just a coloring. Nothing leaves a stain or trace on awareness. Life is a temporary coloring, of eternity, of this dimension this presence of eternity. Which shines in this knowledge of I am. Felt in our hearts as peace happiness love. Shines in our perceptions as beauty.
Wow! This is indeed, amazingly - current Upanishad.
I realized this yesterday and now i found this video.. absolutely true, we are all just one..
Welcome home Ubba!!!!!!
Just wanted to throw it out there Rupert 😂 that I live high above Loch Ness and I once saw something down there that was completely inexplicable!! ❤
In the world of things, we seek our gain
A never-ending cycle, of want and pain
We cling to objects, as if they hold the key
To happiness, that forever eludes our plea
We chase the latest, the trendiest, the best
But in our hearts, a void remains unressed
For materialism, a false god we make
That leaves us empty, and our souls to ache
We are not these things, that we possess
But in the dance of life, we've lost the finesse
Of living fully, in the present moment
Where true joy and peace, forever foment
So let us see, beyond the veil of form
And find the truth, that forever warms
For in the stillness, the beauty unfolds
And the material world, forever grows old
So let us let go, of this religion of things
And find the truth, that forever sings
In the silence, we are whole and complete
And true happiness, forever, we meet.
❤️🌎🌹💜💗extraordinarySharing ,enlightening the clarity of the truth, and yet so simple , effortless.......I fall in love with both Mary and Jane . Who in fact are ONE.........greatfulness is at your feet Rupert .....infinite being. Infinite love and compassion .....and We. Are ....thank you thank you thank you 🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒
Rupert answers a fundamental question: how to ask the right question.
Wow, this is eye opener! Brilliant!
This is an incredible talk.
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
I’ve got 20 minutes in so far but I’ll definitely come back
One thing is for sure this is a serious matter, the speaker never smiled 😢
This is session 1 of day 1 in a multi day retreat. He’s not breaking them in gently, pulling punches. Bam! The full teaching in the first hour. And no pussyfooting around in the Q&A! 😅
The first fifteen minutes of this is enough for me to mull over for a lifetime...
Awareness is so fun 🤩 and tricky for the separate self ♥️
Trying to understand consciousness is like a fish swimming around trying to find water.