It seems to me that if we were to listen to this one lecture by Rupert and take it slow and allow his words, tone and pace to take us HOME... it would. It would be the Voice of the Essential Self talking to us. Rupert is speaking from this Inner Source of Peace, Happiness and Love, which is always HERE and PRESENT. I think if we take any speech by Him, and allow ourselves to immerse in its tonal vibes and slowly shift from the routine habit of paying attention to the content of Experience --- to the Light of what makes us AWARE (conscious) we will be making the HOME run. Listening with full intent to Rupert is listening to our own Inner Voice and stepping in to become ONE With it. We already are in this PRESENCE and must turn around to immerse in it. Listen to Rupert again and again and allow ourselves to drown in this EVER PRESENT REALiTY and enter into our Immortal changeless SELF. It might take months or days or weeks or hours or even a few minutes to come HOME. Remain in this mode constantly even after this talk. Hear Rupert's voice constantly as we do our daily stuff as we progressively AWAKEN or it could be suddenly. These are my notes and reminder to myself and you might find value in it as you listen again and again to this God blessed illuminated Rupert.
Why asking constantly "Who am I".........You have a body, a mind, and a soul, a drop of God or whatever you may call it. That is all together who you are in this material world, those are the tools to manifest yourself in this sub-reality. The soul is consciousness with a memory imprint and indestructible, but to perform in this sub reality you need these mechanics, like the body and mind, to manifest and identify yourself. You are what you experience you are, in whatever state you find yourself in, with or without a body.
I've never heard of Rupert some a year ago, but the moment I've heard him, he instantly made a deep resonance with my direct experience of awakening (even though I hesitant to name it that way), Rupert has a tremendous ability of explaining seemingly complex things in very elegant and even poetic way, which I have never met before. He is a true blessing and a conduit of awareness in the world.
Yes, after Yoga, Buddhism and Vedanta...this, truthful, simple , primordial way touches my core. My son will be 32 soon and he has been evolved into this direct path with his innocence and truth...wonderful to find his teaching. Spirituality should not be so complex. Ekhart Tolle also focuses on the same premises of Now yet his expressions are too intellectual to many
I’ve recently discovered this true master of peace and happiness. He reaches so deep into my soul and heart and has answered many of my questions of seeking a meaningful life. I thank you from my soul
OMG!!!🙏😃❤️ So Good! Our Nature of love… Yes! Thank you All…For sharing our journey together for thanksgiving and understanding. Exploring this “dimension” (?) physical experience (?) It has been a great time of connection and conversation…beyond the Place of words 🙏❤️🥰
I just found Rupert Spira this week. Firstly I have to say I love his voice and I am very interested in becoming aware of my awareness and finally living from it. Thank you for this share.
🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.). In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving! Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent). Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual. APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances. Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief. Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above. The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life. Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life. Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined. Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture. Cont...
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT? WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher. Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course. Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment, including other life forms. Most beneficially, you are urged to become VEGAN, since carnism (the destructive ideology which supports the use and consumption of animal products, especially for “food”) is, apart from illegitimate (non-monarchical) governance and feminism, arguably the foremost existential crisis. Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and HAPPINESS! “The cure for nescience is unerring knowledge”. “You are this universe and you are creating it at every moment, because, you see, it starts now. It didn't begin in the past - there IS no past.” ************* “Find out who you REALLY are so that when death comes…there is no-one to kill, for while you are identified with your role, with your name, with your ego, there is someone to kill. But when you are identified with the whole universe, death finds you already annihilated and there’s no-one to kill”. ************* “A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'. In other words, we are not separate.” ************* “Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.” ************* “The meaning of life is life itself.” Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts, British-American Philosopher. (06/01/1915 - 16/11/1973). “What you seek is seeking you.” ************* “Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.” ************* “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ************* “We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” ************* “The lamps are different, but the light is the same.” Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. (30/09/1207 - 17/12/1273). 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱☮️😇☮️🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 To read the remaining twenty-nine chapters of “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, which are the most authoritative, accurate and complete spiritual precepts so far in human history, send me a private message or Email: SpiritualPsychotherapyServices@gmail.com with the acronym “FISH” in the subject field. 🐟
30:31: We are free at each moment to soften the focus of our attention from the objective content of experience (thoughts, images, feelings,...) and allow our attention to come back to our true nature, to ourselves, to awareness. 34:08: We, awareness are already whole. The absence of lack = happiness, thus we are happiness. A happiness that is independent from the content of experience. 45:41: Once well established in our true nature of awareness, triggers don't succeed to pull us out into our old conditioned reactivity.
I began to listen and Read Rupert teachings in 2016 after being listening and reading from other wonderful teachers also After all this years the most amazing important teaching from Rupert that I didn’t found before is the idea that non resistance our feelings and thoughts really means TO FACE them. Before Rupert my understanding was that I had to meditate or do something that would take me out of my sad feelings Now I don’t find a way to Thank Rupert for this shift in my perception of the NON RESISTANCE spiritual principle
Non resistance the principle of ANIRAKARANA MASTU extolled in ancient Vedic literature traditions because what we resist persists We have to transcend not resist Kudos to RUPERT for elucidating .thanks 🙏
People can find happiness in so many ways, there is not one way for all, although Rupert thinks differently. Just long-lasting happiness can be found in contentment and satisfaction with the awareness of life in a material world where pleasantness is a part of and happiness is the goal. There are millions of people ultimately happy without knowing or understanding what Rupert is talking about and there are people who are happy with the knowledge as well as there are people ending up in a mental institution.......
YES!!! The Direct path to your Eternal "I AM Presence' in the ONLY time that ever exists! The eternal present moment of 'now'... I'm watching this for the 2nd time and I resonate with Rupert's knowing of his truth, our truth... All is the ONE conscious awareness modulating itself in local ripples in the Unified Field as individuated expressions such as you and I... Ultimately only ONE thing is happening (in trillions of different frequencies and vibratory rates). Absolutely LOVING these meditations!! 🧘♂️💖🧘♂️ Xx🙏NAMASTE🙏xX
Listening to Rupert and others like Eckart Tolle or Kastrup i think i was enlightened when i was a child up until 30 years old and then the dark side of the moon has engulfed me 😇😅 yayy I love life ❤️
My partner and I very much enjoyed listening to Rupert Spira in the main big top at WYF last year. We are hoping that he will be there once again this year.
1:25:53 Thank you, dear Sonya, for your wonderful question that prompted such an important answer! I never had a luxury of traveling to any ashram or sacred place and I nevef formally had a guru. But somehow I knew that I don't need to travel far or chase best teachers to be able to discover my self. I'm grateful for technology thay allows us to receive teachings in any corner of the world as long as we are interested in listening and open to learning. I used to have this concern that if I don't meet my teacher in person or find my sanga I would never find the way back to true self. But this beautiful exchange between you and Rupert gives me hope that as long as my heart desires it my mind will follow in search of truth. Thank you!
Of course, of course we are just in the source as someone awakened has said that just a flimesy curtain is what's there in between, he pointed to this cluster of thoughts, emotiona and I don't know what more, but dear it's more interested in meeting us than we might be so it connect us link us to all the means suitable to us to help us in this journey, often very often making us feel it's presence, assuring us to not loose heart encouraging us, leading us, may be I am altogether wrong but i wrote what I truly felt, so if you find all this studip I beg your pardon please forgive this fool who may be sounding that he knows when in truth he absolutely knows nothing, love you dear fellow traveller, love you, love you, love you, love you.
@@DilbagSingh-ox8li 🐟 17. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, LIBERATION, & ENLIGHTENMENT: AWAKENING: Any person who has experienced a state of cosmic awareness can rightly be called a “buddha” (a Sanskrit/Pali term for “an awakened being”). During such TEMPORAL experiences (that is, they begin at some point in time and then end at a subsequent point in time, even if at the time of death), there is usually an apparent dissolution of the subject-object dichotomy, or at least a radical shift in one’s perception of life. In the most profound awakening experience, the perceiver, the perceived, and the perceiving, mystically unify (“advaita anubhava”, in Sanskrit). Awakening means to clearly see that one’s persona is but a character in a dream of The Absolute, and that one is essentially that Flawless Awareness. Therefore, it is not to be taken literally - that the person wakes from the “Cosmic Dream” in the same way that a human wakes from a night dream. It simply implies that the person realizes that he/she is one of the multitude of dream CHARACTERS, and that individual free-will was purely an illusion. When one experiences a night dream, one usually identifies with only one particular character (for example, “last night, I dreamed that I played chess with the prince”). However, all the characters in one's dream originate in the very same mind. Similarly, the living creatures in this universe are naught but characters in the “Mind of God”, to put it in theistic terms. During such awakenings, one experiences the non-conceptual state, which is somewhat akin to the state of equanimous mind or "steady-mind" (“samādhi”, in Sanskrit). However, samādhi is usually a far longer-term state of being, normally arising after lengthy periods of practice. Spiritual awakening is a relatively common phenomenon. In fact, there are most probably MILLIONS of persons currently on earth who have experienced some kind of awakening, where they directly perceive themselves to be more than a mere body-mind complex. The experience can be either totally spontaneous, or it can follow many decades of intense spiritual practice (“sādhanā”, in Sanskrit). However, there is no direct causal link between religious practices and awakening experiences, despite what most religionists (“sādhaka”, in Sanskrit) believe. It is common for newly-awakened persons to CONFUSE and conflate relative and absolute truth. That is to say, when neophyte buddhas speak of relative concepts, they invariably use absolute terms. This is colloquially known as the “spiritual side-step” or as “spiritual bypassing”. For instance, they may make such statements as: “You don't exist”; “Nothing ever happened”; “There is no right or wrong”; “Everything and/or everyone is equal”; “I am not my body”; “We are One”; and “I am you, and you are me”. Hopefully, such persons will come to see that there is no need to speak about everything from the Absolute perspective. Verily, it is unbeneficial to the persons with whom they are conversing (unless, of course, those third persons are thoroughly deluded materialists, who are unable to see beyond the physical realm). Awakening to one’s true nature does NOT automatically promote one to being a saint, since one’s unique characteristics, flaws and obsessions may perdure. There is an abundance of evidence that awakening experiences can be induced simply by the administration of certain hallucinogenic drugs, so to claim that one is exceptionally remarkable just for being a buddha, is rather conceited. Unfortunately (for spiritual-seekers), there is a multitude of awakened or partially-awakened persons who mistakenly believe that they are somehow enlightened masters, and proceed to embark on a teaching career. The fact is, many (if not most) of these BOGUS “gurus” are afflicted with a narcissistic, demonic mentality, bereft of morality, and ought to be exposed and denounced for the fraudsters that they are. As will be very succinctly explained in forthcoming chapters of this Holy Scripture, it is the sacred duty of members of the Priesthood ALONE to disseminate religious/spiritual knowledge throughout society (or to be more accurate, teach seminarians and the leader of the government, who in turn teach other men, who in turn teach their own subordinates). Simply attaining a “spiritual state”, even with the benefit of a vast body of knowledge, does not automatically confer authority on a person to become a spiritual master (“guru”, in Sanskrit). There is, in fact, an enormous gulf between the two (that is, between an awakened non-priest working as a spiritual teacher, and an enlightened spiritual master). Most persons would undoubtedly disapprove of a person stealing the property of another, yet think nothing of a working-class chap or a mere woman performing the function of a priest (“brāhmaṇa”, in Sanskrit). The fact is, when any person (other than a priest/guru) assumes the role of a spiritual leader, he or she is quite LITERALLY stealing the occupation of a priest. The phrase “The blind leading the blind” is pertinent here. By understanding the entirety of this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, it shall assist one in the discernment necessary to distinguish an actual spiritual master from a person who may superficially seem to be a wise and holy teacher by the masses, yet is, in fact, a charlatan. Unfortunately, only a wise sage can identify his peers, so it requires a genuine prophet to recognize which spiritual teachers are ACTUAL masters. Nevertheless, as a general rule, at least ninety-nine per cent of those giving spiritual precepts to society, are unqualified to do so (see Chapter 20 to know the prerequisites for a member of the Holy Priesthood. Despite what many believe, priests are not at all ordinary men). LIBERATION: “Liberation” means “freedom”. Thus, a liberated soul is a person who has become emancipated from the five kinds of suffering (blame, shame, pride, anxiety, regrets about the past and expectations for the future), all of which are based on the belief in personal AGENCY. Read Chapter 15 to understand the nature of suffering, and Chapter 11 to understand that humans are not independent agents with freedom of will. Awakening experiences are not a prerequisite to being liberated from suffering. LIKEWISE, not all liberated persons are automatically enlightened (at least not to the degree necessary in order to be labelled as such), but there is a strong correlation between the two states of being. It's possible to be liberated, whilst not possessing a deep understanding of life. A liberated person is scarce, because very few understand the true nature of suffering, and of those who do understand the distinction between psycho-physical pain and ACTUAL (psychological) suffering, it is difficult to surrender to one's circumstances, free of obsessive thinking and judging. Liberated souls are usually those who have diligently practiced one of the four systems of yoga described in Chapter 16. Cont...
ENLIGHTENMENT: Of those who have experienced a state of “oneness” and are free from mental suffering, there are EXTREMELY rare souls who are spiritually-enlightened (at least to such an extent to be worthy of the label). If the term were to be taken literally, a person may be permeated or imbued in light to varying degrees, just as the ocean is more illumined by direct sunlight than it is by the reflected light of the moon. So, when a layman thinks of an enlightened soul, he or she typically imagines a person who knows what life is “all about”, or has “seen the light of God” (metaphorically-speaking). Simply having an awakening experience is quite far-removed from being an enlightened sage. Every person who has ever lived can be RANKED according to their level of enlightenment. Even if one understands that there is more to existence than gross matter and localized consciousness, one could claim to be more enlightened than a gross materialist. Therefore, somewhere in the world resides a person who is the most ignorant fool on earth, and at a different location one may find the most enlightened sage extant. Like practically everything in life, enlightenment is relative. Even “complete” enlightenment is not an absolute state. Even the most educated person alive has the capacity to increase his knowledge. Not even Divine Incarnations are all-knowing, I would posit. If one were to approach a rocket scientist, one would expect him to fully understand his field of expertise. He would understand advanced physics and chemistry, and know precisely how to design and launch spacecraft into outer-space. Similarly, an enlightened sage is one who understands LIFE. He knows how this phenomenal world came to be, how the law of action and reaction actually works, how to become liberated from temporal sufferings, and should be able to logically answer any question posed to him by a spiritual seeker (what to speak of highly-intelligent members of the scientific and philosophical communities). An enlightened person has eschewed all belief systems and relies solely on objective, VERIFIABLE concepts, knowing that even the most accurate concepts are relative, and that the ultimate reality is Absolute. Read Chapter 03 of “F.I.S.H” to appreciate this philosophical foundation. A laconic way to describe how it feels to be a fully-enlightened (and awakened) person is thus: imagine yourself (that is, your waking-state persona) entering a dream and interacting with the dream characters, giving no regard to any uncomfortable situation, including possible death, as you know that you cannot die. That is similar to how a genuine sage relates to this seemingly-real creation - continuously at peace with what is. A fully-enlightened person is almost invariably a member of the Holy Priesthood (a prophet, to be more precise), and NECESSARILY possesses a genius or near-genius level of intelligence. “Necessarily”, because, as previously stated, he is required to competently respond to even the most difficult questions and conundrums posed to him by others (otherwise, he can hardly claim to be a fully-enlightened individual). Imagine approaching a so-called “enlightened sage”, and after asking him the most profound questions imaginable, he responds “Umm...I don't know!” On the other hand, even the village idiot can receive awakening experiences. However, to be liberated from suffering, one normally requires at least an average level of intelligence, because understanding the nature of suffering (as opposed to mere pain) is a rather intellectual concept. Needless to say, an enlightened person adheres to a strict code of morals and ethics, such as the avoidance of illicit sexual activity, gambling, intoxicants, and animal products. To be fair, there are many examples of persons who seem to be very awakened and/or enlightened, yet engage in base pursuits such as those mentioned above, due to their genetic make-up and their conditioning. However, this category is devoted to highly-evolved beings who LITERALLY radiate holiness - those who even the vilest of souls can recognize to be elevated far above ordinary, animalistic humanity. Sometimes, those vile souls far more easily recognize enlightened saints than do persons who are supposedly spiritually-advanced, as when the demoniacs, called “Legion”, instantly identified the Divine Avatar, Lord Jesus Christ, as the Son of the Most High God, whilst the Jewish high-priest at the time considered The Perfect Person Himself to be naught but a ominous rabble-rouser and a blasphemer. It seems logical to assume that any person who purports to be a fully-enlightened soul must be morally-upright. Therefore, those who profess to be enlightened individuals, yet who actively support objectively-evil ideologies or practices, such as socialism, communism, democracy, feminism, homosexuality, and carnism, are of no practical benefit to society (quite the opposite, in fact - they are a DETRIMENT to society) The devilish character, known as “Satan” in the Judeo-Christian tradition, seems to have been quite enlightened about spiritual reality, yet I'm not sure if anyone would call him an “enlightened being”. To be rather forthright, a fully-enlightened sage will accept the conceptual framework of this Holy Scripture, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, as being a very accurate description of life as it is (or as it could be or should be). It is far far preferable for a guru to teach impeccable moral precepts, yet have a flawed understanding of metaphysics, than vice versa. Out of a billion persons, there may be one or two enlightened masters. These self-realized world-teachers are almost TOTALLY shunned by society, for, as Lord Jesus Christ once proclaimed: “I am the enemy of the world because I am telling the world that it is evil” (paraphrased). It is extremely easy to identify a truly-enlightened spiritual master: The first question one should ask a prospective guru is "What is the ideal form of government?". If he acknowledges monarchy to be the only legitimate form of governance, then ask "Does free-will exist for any living creature?". If he responds in the negative, then the chances are that he is an authentic guru, assuming, of course, that he is a strict vegan, and is despised by most all of humanity. If he has more than a couple of dedicated disciples, he is most probably teaching something less than Truth. “You have to let it happen, just like you have to let yourself go to sleep - you can’t try to go to sleep. You have to let yourself digest your food - you can’t try to digest it. And so, in the same way, you have to let yourself wake-up (become liberated).” ************** *“A flow of water suddenly does a whirlpool and then it goes on. The whirlpool is a definite form but no water stays put in it. The whirlpool is something the stream is doing, and in exactly the same way, the universe is doing each one of us.” Professor Alan W. Watts, British-American Philosopher. “Awakening cannot take place, so long as the idea persists, that one is a seeker. Doing sadhana (spiritual practices) means, assuming the existence of a phantom. The entity that you think you are, is false. You ARE the Reality!” ************** “When Realization dawns, then what happens? You are no longer 'you'. You remain established in the inner silence and freedom, without any concern for your welfare, content with whatever comes along - and life goes on in perfect effortlessness.” ************** “Only when it is time, in the cosmic scheme of evolution, for a particular psychosomatic apparatus to get enlightened, can enlightenment happen. And if that time has come, nothing in this world can prevent it from happening. Nor can anything in this world, make enlightenment happen, if it is not time.” ************** “The disciple goes to the guru seeking enlightenment, as something which he can enjoy as an individual, while the enlightened guru knows their relationship to be a completely impersonal evolutionary process, in which no individuals figure at all.” ************* “Self-inquiry is the direct path to Self-realization or enlightenment. The only way to make the mind cease its outward activities, is to turn it inward. By steady and continuous investigation into the nature of the mind, the mind itself gets transformed into That to which it owes its own existence.” ************* “When both the rational and intuitive planes of mind are allowed full operation, they get superimposed on each other, resulting in a fasting of the mind or NO-MIND state. This is the most alert state, in which the mind can find itself, because of the total freedom in which it can operate - a beautiful, natural blending of discipline and spontaneity.” Ramesh Balsekar, Indian Spiritual Teacher.
Such beings are rare and it's a our egos that keeps us bonded in daily sanskaras... without knowing our true worth of pure awareness.... SwapnilS mumbai.🙏🙏🙏 What Rupert is saying is already realized by Jainism by arihant..it's our core ...
Thank goodness for people like rupert he's helped so many people with his simple approach for the ordinary person . I've struggled for year I've read books practiced and learnt a little as I went along it's ruperts teaching that made the light bulb finally switch on for me.. he's such a blessing I'm so grateful for him
I would like to THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for free video sharing in full on TH-cam channel. Rupert´s explanation was so clear, so real, so useful and therefore I understood certain contexts on my direct path :) Thank you very much!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear god for making us be in this times, for letting us have this gift of internet, for snatching away our excuses, for letting us listen and see so many of your messangers right here in our homes, thank you, love you all,love you, love you, love you.
I like the touching way Rupert try hard to look wise. With Eckart Tollé, he could compete to the world championship of fake illumination. Always smiling, always grumpy, saying cliches with innocence, nobody can rival his oneness look. "Words, words, words", said the Bard.
Heartbreakingly beautifully in its profound simplicity & directness. And what a beautiful face translucently radiating all the qualities of our natural state of which he so clearly speaks! Thank you (from northern NSW in Australia) for posting, ❤️✨️🙏
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Thank you so very much for bringing your experience and wisdom to us through this format. You have definitely enhanced my being during these difficulty times. Namaste.
That is true we seek happiness in accusation of things , relationships , objects …impermanent . We seek enlightenment as our last chance for happiness. Happiness is our nature of the self.
Thank you Rupert for your excellent talk on the direct path. I'm blessed to have found this. 🙏😊 I just found your video on TH-cam. Someone asked a question about how to come back to our true self, that is, our eternal awareness or consciousness, when we find ourselves in trying circumstances, like for instance when with our family and things start to get intense. Well, usually we expect the situation to be satisfying to us and we get upset when it does not. It is this expectation to satisfy our ego that takes us away from our true self the awareness. Instead, if we don't expect anything and let go of our expectation then we have a chance to stay in awareness. Just a thought. 🙏
Hi all, we are requesting Rupert’s team to consider arranging Retreats in India so that all interested participants who wish to attend in person retreats from the Indian region can attend. In this regard, I have sent email to Mr Neil to register the name in the attendees list for Rupert’s proposal of doing retreats in India. Hope this information may be useful for all the members in the group who wish to attend in person retreats in India. Thank you 🙏At the moment, It is only a request to Rupert’s team. Hope they will consider and may arrange in future.
This inward march of the mind has traditionally been called meditation. It’s natural and spontaneous but not necessarily routine for most people., I.e. left to chance and circumstances.
🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.). In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving! Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent). Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual. APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances. Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief. Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above. The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life. Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life. Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined. Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture. Cont....
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT? WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher. Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course. Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment, including other life forms. Most beneficially, you are urged to become VEGAN, since carnism (the destructive ideology which supports the use and consumption of animal products, especially for “food”) is, apart from illegitimate (non-monarchical) governance and feminism, arguably the foremost existential crisis. Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and HAPPINESS! “The cure for nescience is unerring knowledge”. “You are this universe and you are creating it at every moment, because, you see, it starts now. It didn't begin in the past - there IS no past.” ************* “Find out who you REALLY are so that when death comes…there is no-one to kill, for while you are identified with your role, with your name, with your ego, there is someone to kill. But when you are identified with the whole universe, death finds you already annihilated and there’s no-one to kill”. ************* “A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'. In other words, we are not separate.” ************* “Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.” ************* “The meaning of life is life itself.” Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts, British-American Philosopher. (06/01/1915 - 16/11/1973). “What you seek is seeking you.” ************* “Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.” ************* “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ************* “We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” ************* “The lamps are different, but the light is the same.” Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. (30/09/1207 - 17/12/1273). 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱☮️😇☮️🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱 To read the remaining twenty-nine chapters of “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, which are the most authoritative, accurate and complete spiritual precepts so far in human history, send me a private message or Email: SpiritualPsychotherapyServices@gmail.com with the acronym “FISH” in the subject field. 🐟
Your friends are my friends! This was really outstanding! I have been aware of you, but this was my first time listening to your words. Your response to questions were so inciteful! Thank You!
Hi Rupert: I just had the realization that even vasanas are objects to awareness. I think when a vasana arises in the mind, paying attention to it as an arising object will put a distance on it and dissoluteion of the vasana begins. I think Buddha called this "burning the seeds"???
It would be helpful to distinguish between happiness and peace : Happiness is circumstantial. - Peace is beyond circumstances Happiness is mind / ego based - Peace is aware presence
i can SAY i am pure happy avwareness and that's the right answer doesn't mean i am experiencing that truth. i understand i can't reach this state with my logical rational brain, im in the not this and not that. so i will stay still and allow reality to be exactly as it is without wanting to change it but wait and look bc God takes the last step, not me. come on God
si me pagas, yo podria hacerlo. (Bromeando ;) ) Pero...como con Krishnamurti (cuando en España, tenía un libro en español y entendí todo), por eso es bueno para ti ayudar a aprender inglés. Surete!
How is it that the self does not know itself clearly? Can it be? No, so it is nonsense what he meant. Or knowing knows itself or not, there is not in-between. Who is who knows not so clearly? Awareness? No. Who then? The mind? No, the mind knows nothing, it think it knows but knows nothing at all. So who knows but not so clearly? If this mistake was considered basically all these talks would have never happened.
Yeah the message is still divine regardless of the msngr! Nevertheless... What problem are these people solving? IDK, are they aware of all individually unique paradigm-breaking bones-shivering hard-core gangster path they have to take to put that all-positive sugary faces in a balance with the dark shet that sits on the subtlest levels of this thing called our mind?
And where the blast are youngsters in this hype called "spiritual community"? most are retired seniors playing with their time on that 401K money? why?
Nothing new about this approach. It was invented by Nargajuna, (150-250), and rediscovered over and over again especially by Ramana Maharshi. However, this approach is only a preparatory technique in Buddhism, not regarded as a sole path to the Self. There are other meds, such as accessing "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir". Listen to it for 5 min per day for at least two weeks and tap into Pure Consciousness. Merge with That Transcendental Absolute, the Self of the universe, Pure Awareness.
drop your notion of you in the ocean you little droplet you you are but a drop your self of a bigger ocean too did you emerge can you sub merge in the ocean by being two -- unknown
A poor thinking, repeated again and again is still à poor thinking. Nothing means nothing ? The thinkings, sensations has no meaning ? Really ? Let me try to understand, Mr Spira is made rich out of repeating the samedi poor ideas again and again.
It might be a very tough situation to be in as opposite to be literally unknown, letting self existence dissolve in its own time, free to flow and behave very naturally not pulled out and act according to the expectations of those who find you inspiring so kind of follow you, I don't know how the ones who are famous cope with it as I had no experience but yeah it's very different and very tough curriculum, may be I am entirely wrong, I am just conveying what my heart feels, but leave it off who cares, I love you tadios love you and your comment is cold water to my sleepy eyes, thank you, thank you, love you, love you
FINALLY someone with a brain! I agree. Non duality is Total ignorance. Non Duality is simply pretending you don't exist and believing that everything is just God experiencing itself. Non Dualists see intelligence and knowledge and concepts as bad since it's "ego" It's very ironic and hypocritical since these Non Dualists still use technology and live in the luxuries of modern society that came about as a direct result of intelligence, technology and science. Believing in delusions like god experiencing itself has nothing to do with this scientific progress. If You took Rupert and put him out in the wilderness to try and survive without the luxuries of modern society, he would quickly snap out of his non dual delusions if being "enlightened" and become the primate animal he is. All I see from Rupert and pretty much any "guru" is huge egos and narcissism. They pretend they are "enlightened" and have figured out all the secrets and prey on the vulnerable and exploit them for all of their money by feeding them dogma on their so called spiritual "retreats" I think Rupert is just addicted to the attention and admiration he gets from the people he brainwashes. Science and technology has removed more suffering than Non duality ever will. Not only that, technology has the potential to end all disease, death and suffering. Clinging to delusions like Non Duality will not stop suffering.
It seems to me that if we were to listen to this one lecture by Rupert and take it slow and allow his words, tone and pace to take us HOME... it would. It would be the Voice of the Essential Self talking to us. Rupert is speaking from this Inner Source of Peace, Happiness and Love, which is always HERE and PRESENT. I think if we take any speech by Him, and allow ourselves to immerse in its tonal vibes and slowly shift from the routine habit of paying attention to the content of Experience --- to the Light of what makes us AWARE (conscious) we will be making the HOME run. Listening with full intent to Rupert is listening to our own Inner Voice and stepping in to become ONE With it. We already are in this PRESENCE and must turn around to immerse in it. Listen to Rupert again and again and allow ourselves to drown in this EVER PRESENT REALiTY and enter into our Immortal changeless SELF. It might take months or days or weeks or hours or even a few minutes to come HOME. Remain in this mode constantly even after this talk. Hear Rupert's voice constantly as we do our daily stuff as we progressively AWAKEN or it could be suddenly. These are my notes and reminder to myself and you might find value in it as you listen again and again to this God blessed illuminated Rupert.
Namaste Rupert Spira for experiencing our innate self through your kind words.
Don't understand it
thank you
Why asking constantly "Who am I".........You have a body, a mind, and a soul, a drop of God or whatever you may call it. That is all together who you are in this material world, those are the tools to manifest yourself in this sub-reality.
The soul is consciousness with a memory imprint and indestructible, but to perform in this sub reality you need these mechanics, like the body and mind, to manifest and identify yourself. You are what you experience you are, in whatever state you find yourself in, with or without a body.
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Look at Rupert connecting with all the people on screens at the beginning with such love in his eyes, so beautiful. Love you, Mr. Rupert
I noticed the same. I was just listening and had to go back and look at the video. Felt very genuine.
I’m seeing him just now right after New Years 2023! I can’t wait to watch the whole festival with him! Such kindness! ♥️💕
I've never heard of Rupert some a year ago, but the moment I've heard him, he instantly made a deep resonance with my direct experience of awakening (even though I hesitant to name it that way), Rupert has a tremendous ability of explaining seemingly complex things in very elegant and even poetic way, which I have never met before. He is a true blessing and a conduit of awareness in the world.
here here, couldn't agree more. ditto I found him a year ago - transformational for my life
Absolutely true assessment
absolutely! and well said! 💗🙏💗
Exactly the same way it happened to me whilst listening to Rupert
Yes, after Yoga, Buddhism and Vedanta...this, truthful, simple , primordial way touches my core. My son will be 32 soon and he has been evolved into this direct path with his innocence and truth...wonderful to find his teaching. Spirituality should not be so complex. Ekhart Tolle also focuses on the same premises of Now yet his expressions are too intellectual to many
I enjoyed that conversation very much indeed. Thank you.
Awwww! He was so stinkin cute at the beginning! His little cheeks started to get red, you can tell he got emotional 💕
yeaaaaah
I’ve recently discovered this true master of peace and happiness. He reaches so deep into my soul and heart and has answered many of my questions of seeking a meaningful life. I thank you from my soul
OMG!!!🙏😃❤️
So Good! Our Nature of love…
Yes! Thank you All…For sharing our journey together for thanksgiving and understanding. Exploring this “dimension” (?) physical experience (?)
It has been a great time of connection and conversation…beyond the Place of words 🙏❤️🥰
Rupert is the best orator happening!
The ZOE question and answer was beautiful and so understandable, something we can all practice. Thank you Rupert for explaining that one so well ❤
I just found Rupert Spira this week. Firstly I have to say I love his voice and I am very interested in becoming aware of my awareness and finally living from it. Thank you for this share.
🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.).
In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving!
Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual.
APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness).
HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism.
As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above.
The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life.
Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.
Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined.
Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture.
Cont...
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher.
Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course.
Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment, including other life forms.
Most beneficially, you are urged to become VEGAN, since carnism (the destructive ideology which supports the use and consumption of animal products, especially for “food”) is, apart from illegitimate (non-monarchical) governance and feminism, arguably the foremost existential crisis.
Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and HAPPINESS!
“The cure for nescience is unerring knowledge”.
“You are this universe and you are creating it at every moment, because, you see, it starts now.
It didn't begin in the past - there IS no past.”
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“Find out who you REALLY are so that when death comes…there is no-one to kill, for while you are identified with your role, with your name, with your ego, there is someone to kill. But when you are identified with the whole universe, death finds you already annihilated and there’s no-one to kill”.
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“A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'.
In other words, we are not separate.”
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“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
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“The meaning of life is life itself.”
Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts,
British-American Philosopher.
(06/01/1915 - 16/11/1973).
“What you seek is seeking you.”
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“Don't you know yet?
It is your light that lights the worlds.”
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“Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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“We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
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“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.”
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
(30/09/1207 - 17/12/1273).
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Yes, the peace is always within, regardless of situation.
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30:31: We are free at each moment to soften the focus of our attention from the objective content of experience (thoughts, images, feelings,...) and allow our attention to come back to our true nature, to ourselves, to awareness.
34:08: We, awareness are already whole. The absence of lack = happiness, thus we are happiness. A happiness that is independent from the content of experience.
45:41: Once well established in our true nature of awareness, triggers don't succeed to pull us out into our old conditioned reactivity.
Thank you ☺️
This inward march of the mind has traditionally been called meditation. It’s natural and spontaneous but not necessarily routine for most people.
May I ask you how you generated your transcript?
@@cwkcwkcwk50 I tried to summarise what was said without distorting the meaning.
I began to listen and Read Rupert teachings in 2016 after being listening and reading from other wonderful teachers also After all this years the most amazing important teaching from Rupert that I didn’t found before is the idea that non resistance our feelings and thoughts really means TO FACE them. Before Rupert my understanding was that I had to meditate or do something that would take me out of my sad feelings Now I don’t find a way to Thank Rupert for this shift in my perception of the NON RESISTANCE spiritual principle
Non resistance the principle of ANIRAKARANA MASTU extolled in ancient Vedic literature traditions because what we resist persists
We have to transcend not resist
Kudos to RUPERT for elucidating .thanks 🙏
Yes ofcourse😊 "bad" feelings dissolve in presence. And to be presence its an allowing not a resistance. Like Rupert said, even allowing resistance
People can find happiness in so many ways, there is not one way for all, although Rupert thinks differently.
Just long-lasting happiness can be found in contentment and satisfaction with the awareness of life in a material world where pleasantness is a part of and happiness is the goal.
There are millions of people ultimately happy without knowing or understanding what Rupert is talking about and there are people who are happy with the knowledge as well as there are people ending up in a mental institution.......
I just found Rupert & love hearing him.
YES!!! The Direct path to your Eternal "I AM Presence' in the ONLY time that ever exists! The eternal present moment of 'now'...
I'm watching this for the 2nd time and I resonate with Rupert's knowing of his truth, our truth...
All is the ONE conscious awareness modulating itself in local ripples in the Unified Field as individuated expressions such as you and I...
Ultimately only ONE thing is happening (in trillions of different frequencies and vibratory rates).
Absolutely LOVING these meditations!! 🧘♂️💖🧘♂️
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Love love love Rupert 💗🙏💗
What a wonderful teacher Rupert is, God bless him.
Listening to Rupert and others like Eckart Tolle or Kastrup i think i was enlightened when i was a child up until 30 years old and then the dark side of the moon has engulfed me 😇😅 yayy I love life ❤️
My partner and I very much enjoyed listening to Rupert Spira in the main big top at WYF last year.
We are hoping that he will be there once again this year.
Hi! YES 😊
Rupert will be at the main big top again this year.
So come and join us again.
These Talks are my retreats :-) And help me to remember who I Am, We are, is Awareness. Thank you
1:25:53 Thank you, dear Sonya, for your wonderful question that prompted such an important answer! I never had a luxury of traveling to any ashram or sacred place and I nevef formally had a guru. But somehow I knew that I don't need to travel far or chase best teachers to be able to discover my self. I'm grateful for technology thay allows us to receive teachings in any corner of the world as long as we are interested in listening and open to learning. I used to have this concern that if I don't meet my teacher in person or find my sanga I would never find the way back to true self. But this beautiful exchange between you and Rupert gives me hope that as long as my heart desires it my mind will follow in search of truth. Thank you!
Same!!!
Of course, of course we are just in the source as someone awakened has said that just a flimesy curtain is what's there in between, he pointed to this cluster of thoughts, emotiona and I don't know what more, but dear it's more interested in meeting us than we might be so it connect us link us to all the means suitable to us to help us in this journey, often very often making us feel it's presence, assuring us to not loose heart encouraging us, leading us, may be I am altogether wrong but i wrote what I truly felt, so if you find all this studip I beg your pardon please forgive this fool who may be sounding that he knows when in truth he absolutely knows nothing, love you dear fellow traveller, love you, love you, love you, love you.
@@DilbagSingh-ox8li 🐟 17. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, LIBERATION, & ENLIGHTENMENT:
AWAKENING:
Any person who has experienced a state of cosmic awareness can rightly be called a “buddha” (a Sanskrit/Pali term for “an awakened being”). During such TEMPORAL experiences (that is, they begin at some point in time and then end at a subsequent point in time, even if at the time of death), there is usually an apparent dissolution of the subject-object dichotomy, or at least a radical shift in one’s perception of life. In the most profound awakening experience, the perceiver, the perceived, and the perceiving, mystically unify (“advaita anubhava”, in Sanskrit).
Awakening means to clearly see that one’s persona is but a character in a dream of The Absolute, and that one is essentially that Flawless Awareness. Therefore, it is not to be taken literally - that the person wakes from the “Cosmic Dream” in the same way that a human wakes from a night dream. It simply implies that the person realizes that he/she is one of the multitude of dream CHARACTERS, and that individual free-will was purely an illusion. When one experiences a night dream, one usually identifies with only one particular character (for example, “last night, I dreamed that I played chess with the prince”). However, all the characters in one's dream originate in the very same mind. Similarly, the living creatures in this universe are naught but characters in the “Mind of God”, to put it in theistic terms.
During such awakenings, one experiences the non-conceptual state, which is somewhat akin to the state of equanimous mind or "steady-mind" (“samādhi”, in Sanskrit). However, samādhi is usually a far longer-term state of being, normally arising after lengthy periods of practice.
Spiritual awakening is a relatively common phenomenon. In fact, there are most probably MILLIONS of persons currently on earth who have experienced some kind of awakening, where they directly perceive themselves to be more than a mere body-mind complex. The experience can be either totally spontaneous, or it can follow many decades of intense spiritual practice (“sādhanā”, in Sanskrit). However, there is no direct causal link between religious practices and awakening experiences, despite what most religionists (“sādhaka”, in Sanskrit) believe.
It is common for newly-awakened persons to CONFUSE and conflate relative and absolute truth. That is to say, when neophyte buddhas speak of relative concepts, they invariably use absolute terms. This is colloquially known as the “spiritual side-step” or as “spiritual bypassing”.
For instance, they may make such statements as: “You don't exist”; “Nothing ever happened”; “There is no right or wrong”; “Everything and/or everyone is equal”; “I am not my body”; “We are One”; and “I am you, and you are me”. Hopefully, such persons will come to see that there is no need to speak about everything from the Absolute perspective. Verily, it is unbeneficial to the persons with whom they are conversing (unless, of course, those third persons are thoroughly deluded materialists, who are unable to see beyond the physical realm).
Awakening to one’s true nature does NOT automatically promote one to being a saint, since one’s unique characteristics, flaws and obsessions may perdure. There is an abundance of evidence that awakening experiences can be induced simply by the administration of certain hallucinogenic drugs, so to claim that one is exceptionally remarkable just for being a buddha, is rather conceited.
Unfortunately (for spiritual-seekers), there is a multitude of awakened or partially-awakened persons who mistakenly believe that they are somehow enlightened masters, and proceed to embark on a teaching career.
The fact is, many (if not most) of these BOGUS “gurus” are afflicted with a narcissistic, demonic mentality, bereft of morality, and ought to be exposed and denounced for the fraudsters that they are.
As will be very succinctly explained in forthcoming chapters of this Holy Scripture, it is the sacred duty of members of the Priesthood ALONE to disseminate religious/spiritual knowledge throughout society (or to be more accurate, teach seminarians and the leader of the government, who in turn teach other men, who in turn teach their own subordinates). Simply attaining a “spiritual state”, even with the benefit of a vast body of knowledge, does not automatically confer authority on a person to become a spiritual master (“guru”, in Sanskrit). There is, in fact, an enormous gulf between the two (that is, between an awakened non-priest working as a spiritual teacher, and an enlightened spiritual master).
Most persons would undoubtedly disapprove of a person stealing the property of another, yet think nothing of a working-class chap or a mere woman performing the function of a priest (“brāhmaṇa”, in Sanskrit). The fact is, when any person (other than a priest/guru) assumes the role of a spiritual leader, he or she is quite LITERALLY stealing the occupation of a priest. The phrase “The blind leading the blind” is pertinent here.
By understanding the entirety of this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, it shall assist one in the discernment necessary to distinguish an actual spiritual master from a person who may superficially seem to be a wise and holy teacher by the masses, yet is, in fact, a charlatan.
Unfortunately, only a wise sage can identify his peers, so it requires a genuine prophet to recognize which spiritual teachers are ACTUAL masters. Nevertheless, as a general rule, at least ninety-nine per cent of those giving spiritual precepts to society, are unqualified to do so (see Chapter 20 to know the prerequisites for a member of the Holy Priesthood. Despite what many believe, priests are not at all ordinary men).
LIBERATION:
“Liberation” means “freedom”. Thus, a liberated soul is a person who has become emancipated from the five kinds of suffering (blame, shame, pride, anxiety, regrets about the past and expectations for the future), all of which are based on the belief in personal AGENCY. Read Chapter 15 to understand the nature of suffering, and Chapter 11 to understand that humans are not independent agents with freedom of will.
Awakening experiences are not a prerequisite to being liberated from suffering.
LIKEWISE, not all liberated persons are automatically enlightened (at least not to the degree necessary in order to be labelled as such), but there is a strong correlation between the two states of being. It's possible to be liberated, whilst not possessing a deep understanding of life.
A liberated person is scarce, because very few understand the true nature of suffering, and of those who do understand the distinction between psycho-physical pain and ACTUAL (psychological) suffering, it is difficult to surrender to one's circumstances, free of obsessive thinking and judging. Liberated souls are usually those who have diligently practiced one of the four systems of yoga described in Chapter 16.
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ENLIGHTENMENT:
Of those who have experienced a state of “oneness” and are free from mental suffering, there are EXTREMELY rare souls who are spiritually-enlightened (at least to such an extent to be worthy of the label). If the term were to be taken literally, a person may be permeated or imbued in light to varying degrees, just as the ocean is more illumined by direct sunlight than it is by the reflected light of the moon.
So, when a layman thinks of an enlightened soul, he or she typically imagines a person who knows what life is “all about”, or has “seen the light of God” (metaphorically-speaking). Simply having an awakening experience is quite far-removed from being an enlightened sage.
Every person who has ever lived can be RANKED according to their level of enlightenment. Even if one understands that there is more to existence than gross matter and localized consciousness, one could claim to be more enlightened than a gross materialist. Therefore, somewhere in the world resides a person who is the most ignorant fool on earth, and at a different location one may find the most enlightened sage extant. Like practically everything in life, enlightenment is relative. Even “complete” enlightenment is not an absolute state. Even the most educated person alive has the capacity to increase his knowledge. Not even Divine Incarnations are all-knowing, I would posit.
If one were to approach a rocket scientist, one would expect him to fully understand his field of expertise. He would understand advanced physics and chemistry, and know precisely how to design and launch spacecraft into outer-space.
Similarly, an enlightened sage is one who understands LIFE. He knows how this phenomenal world came to be, how the law of action and reaction actually works, how to become liberated from temporal sufferings, and should be able to logically answer any question posed to him by a spiritual seeker (what to speak of highly-intelligent members of the scientific and philosophical communities).
An enlightened person has eschewed all belief systems and relies solely on objective, VERIFIABLE concepts, knowing that even the most accurate concepts are relative, and that the ultimate reality is Absolute. Read Chapter 03 of “F.I.S.H” to appreciate this philosophical foundation. A laconic way to describe how it feels to be a fully-enlightened (and awakened) person is thus: imagine yourself (that is, your waking-state persona) entering a dream and interacting with the dream characters, giving no regard to any uncomfortable situation, including possible death, as you know that you cannot die. That is similar to how a genuine sage relates to this seemingly-real creation - continuously at peace with what is.
A fully-enlightened person is almost invariably a member of the Holy Priesthood (a prophet, to be more precise), and NECESSARILY possesses a genius or near-genius level of intelligence. “Necessarily”, because, as previously stated, he is required to competently respond to even the most difficult questions and conundrums posed to him by others (otherwise, he can hardly claim to be a fully-enlightened individual). Imagine approaching a so-called “enlightened sage”, and after asking him the most profound questions imaginable, he responds “Umm...I don't know!”
On the other hand, even the village idiot can receive awakening experiences. However, to be liberated from suffering, one normally requires at least an average level of intelligence, because understanding the nature of suffering (as opposed to mere pain) is a rather intellectual concept.
Needless to say, an enlightened person adheres to a strict code of morals and ethics, such as the avoidance of illicit sexual activity, gambling, intoxicants, and animal products. To be fair, there are many examples of persons who seem to be very awakened and/or enlightened, yet engage in base pursuits such as those mentioned above, due to their genetic make-up and their conditioning. However, this category is devoted to highly-evolved beings who LITERALLY radiate holiness - those who even the vilest of souls can recognize to be elevated far above ordinary, animalistic humanity. Sometimes, those vile souls far more easily recognize enlightened saints than do persons who are supposedly spiritually-advanced, as when the demoniacs, called “Legion”, instantly identified the Divine Avatar, Lord Jesus Christ, as the Son of the Most High God, whilst the Jewish high-priest at the time considered The Perfect Person Himself to be naught but a ominous rabble-rouser and a blasphemer.
It seems logical to assume that any person who purports to be a fully-enlightened soul must be morally-upright. Therefore, those who profess to be enlightened individuals, yet who actively support objectively-evil ideologies or practices, such as socialism, communism, democracy, feminism, homosexuality, and carnism, are of no practical benefit to society (quite the opposite, in fact - they are a DETRIMENT to society)
The devilish character, known as “Satan” in the Judeo-Christian tradition, seems to have been quite enlightened about spiritual reality, yet I'm not sure if anyone would call him an “enlightened being”. To be rather forthright, a fully-enlightened sage will accept the conceptual framework of this Holy Scripture, “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, as being a very accurate description of life as it is (or as it could be or should be).
It is far far preferable for a guru to teach impeccable moral precepts, yet have a flawed understanding of metaphysics, than vice versa.
Out of a billion persons, there may be one or two enlightened masters. These self-realized world-teachers are almost TOTALLY shunned by society, for, as Lord Jesus Christ once proclaimed: “I am the enemy of the world because I am telling the world that it is evil” (paraphrased).
It is extremely easy to identify a truly-enlightened spiritual master: The first question one should ask a prospective guru is "What is the ideal form of government?". If he acknowledges monarchy to be the only legitimate form of governance, then ask "Does free-will exist for any living creature?". If he responds in the negative, then the chances are that he is an authentic guru, assuming, of course, that he is a strict vegan, and is despised by most all of humanity. If he has more than a couple of dedicated disciples, he is most probably teaching something less than Truth.
“You have to let it happen, just like you have to let yourself go to sleep - you can’t try to go to sleep. You have to let yourself digest your food - you can’t try to digest it.
And so, in the same way, you have to let yourself wake-up (become liberated).”
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*“A flow of water suddenly does a whirlpool and then it goes on. The whirlpool is a definite form but no water stays put in it.
The whirlpool is something the stream is doing, and in exactly the same way, the universe is doing each one of us.”
Professor Alan W. Watts,
British-American Philosopher.
“Awakening cannot take place, so long as the idea persists, that one is a seeker.
Doing sadhana (spiritual practices) means, assuming the existence of a phantom.
The entity that you think you are, is false.
You ARE the Reality!”
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“When Realization dawns, then what happens? You are no longer 'you'. You remain established in the inner silence and freedom, without any concern for your welfare, content with whatever comes along - and life goes on in perfect effortlessness.”
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“Only when it is time, in the cosmic scheme of evolution, for a particular psychosomatic apparatus to get enlightened, can enlightenment happen.
And if that time has come, nothing in this world can prevent it from happening.
Nor can anything in this world, make enlightenment happen, if it is not time.”
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“The disciple goes to the guru seeking enlightenment, as something which he can enjoy as an individual, while the enlightened guru knows their relationship to be a completely impersonal evolutionary process, in which no individuals figure at all.”
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“Self-inquiry is the direct path to Self-realization or enlightenment.
The only way to make the mind cease its outward activities, is to turn it inward.
By steady and continuous investigation into the nature of the mind, the mind itself gets transformed into That to which it owes its own existence.”
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“When both the rational and intuitive planes of mind are allowed full operation, they get superimposed on each other, resulting in a fasting of the mind or NO-MIND state.
This is the most alert state, in which the mind can find itself, because of the total freedom in which it can operate - a beautiful, natural blending of discipline and spontaneity.”
Ramesh Balsekar,
Indian Spiritual Teacher.
Such beings are rare and it's a our egos that keeps us bonded in daily sanskaras... without knowing our true worth of pure awareness.... SwapnilS mumbai.🙏🙏🙏 What Rupert is saying is already realized by Jainism by arihant..it's our core ...
Thank goodness for people like rupert he's helped so many people with his simple approach for the ordinary person . I've struggled for year I've read books practiced and learnt a little as I went along it's ruperts teaching that made the light bulb finally switch on for me.. he's such a blessing I'm so grateful for him
I would like to THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for free video sharing in full on TH-cam channel. Rupert´s explanation was so clear, so real, so useful and therefore I understood certain contexts on my direct path :) Thank you very much!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear god for making us be in this times, for letting us have this gift of internet, for snatching away our excuses, for letting us listen and see so many of your messangers right here in our homes, thank you, love you all,love you, love you, love you.
☘️☘️☘️ How Blessed are we. Thank You!
I like the touching way Rupert try hard to look wise. With Eckart Tollé, he could compete to the world championship of fake illumination. Always smiling, always grumpy, saying cliches with innocence, nobody can rival his oneness look. "Words, words, words", said the Bard.
Heartbreakingly beautifully in its profound simplicity & directness. And what a beautiful face translucently radiating all the qualities of our natural state of which he so clearly speaks! Thank you (from northern NSW in Australia) for posting, ❤️✨️🙏
Thank you, thank you,thank you!!!
The only thing I can say is: I can see clear now. Every word you said was like a candle shining in my path. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Namaste Namaste Namaste
I was watching one of Ruperts videos. Fell asleep and found myself at this Festival and referred to as Galaxy Tablet A.
A gift from God for you. In absolute truth love and light God produces absolute truth love and light the best of the best for ................full name
Thank you so very much for bringing your experience and wisdom to us through this format. You have definitely enhanced my being during these difficulty times. Namaste.
That is true we seek happiness in accusation of things , relationships , objects …impermanent . We seek enlightenment as our last chance for happiness. Happiness is our nature of the self.
I am so grateful.
omg, i love this, and it was done on my birthday xxxxxxxxxxx
What can you say. Thank you Rupert...
Love=Consciousness=God=Self
this guy is basically impossible to hate lol
thanks Sir Spira-ji. Your presence is peace itself.
Thank you so much!!! 💙
Thank you.. Love this Guy
i would say that our essential nature
is contentment, the freedom which is peace, that which is without desire 🙏🙏
Thank you Rupert for your excellent talk on the direct path. I'm blessed to have found this. 🙏😊 I just found your video on TH-cam. Someone asked a question about how to come back to our true self, that is, our eternal awareness or consciousness, when we find ourselves in trying circumstances, like for instance when with our family and things start to get intense. Well, usually we expect the situation to be satisfying to us and we get upset when it does not. It is this expectation to satisfy our ego that takes us away from our true self the awareness. Instead, if we don't expect anything and let go of our expectation then we have a chance to stay in awareness. Just a thought. 🙏
Hi all, we are requesting Rupert’s team to consider arranging Retreats in India so that all interested participants who wish to attend in person retreats from the Indian region can attend.
In this regard, I have sent email to Mr Neil to register the name in the attendees list for Rupert’s proposal of doing retreats in India.
Hope this information may be useful for all the members in the group who wish to attend in person retreats in India. Thank you 🙏At the moment, It is only a request to Rupert’s team. Hope they will consider and may arrange in future.
This inward march of the mind has traditionally been called meditation. It’s natural and spontaneous but not necessarily routine for most people., I.e. left to chance and circumstances.
🐟 02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Absolutely NOTHING, or conversely, Absolutely EVERYTHING - otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera - yet, as alluded to above, inaccurately referred to as a personal deity by the masses (e.g. “God”, “Allah”, “Yahweh”, “Bhagavan”, etc.).
In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate, Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. That which can be perceived, can not be perceiving!
Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of ephemeral, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an “awakened” individual.
APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal event (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning “all this is indeed Brahman” or “everything is the Universal Self alone”). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness).
HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn't normally mistake the reflected image to be one's real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating form. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit-for-tat”) karma is just that - an unverified notion. Likewise, the idea of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. Chapter 11 insightfully demonstrates this truism.
As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal agency - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is as follows: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements (which can be perceived with the five senses) and the three subtle material elements (the three levels of cognition, which consist of abstract thought objects), listed above.
The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life.
Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.
Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined.
Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture.
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So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher.
Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course.
Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment, including other life forms.
Most beneficially, you are urged to become VEGAN, since carnism (the destructive ideology which supports the use and consumption of animal products, especially for “food”) is, apart from illegitimate (non-monarchical) governance and feminism, arguably the foremost existential crisis.
Best wishes for your unique, personal journey towards unalloyed peace and HAPPINESS!
“The cure for nescience is unerring knowledge”.
“You are this universe and you are creating it at every moment, because, you see, it starts now.
It didn't begin in the past - there IS no past.”
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“Find out who you REALLY are so that when death comes…there is no-one to kill, for while you are identified with your role, with your name, with your ego, there is someone to kill. But when you are identified with the whole universe, death finds you already annihilated and there’s no-one to kill”.
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“A wise Rabbi once said 'If I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I, and you are not you'.
In other words, we are not separate.”
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“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”
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“The meaning of life is life itself.”
Professor Dr. Alan Wilson Watts,
British-American Philosopher.
(06/01/1915 - 16/11/1973).
“What you seek is seeking you.”
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“Don't you know yet?
It is your light that lights the worlds.”
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“Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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“We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
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“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.”
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
(30/09/1207 - 17/12/1273).
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Wonderful session a good insight for spiritual seekers thanks 🙏🙏👍
Your friends are my friends! This was really outstanding! I have been aware of you, but this was my first time listening to your words. Your response to questions were so inciteful! Thank You!
So much love from Morocco
I love this guy
Thank you 🙏
Thank you Rupert
Once again: wonderful!
I love him
Blessed , blessed, blessed, thanks for organizing such a sweet event, ah love you all.
Love the compassion ❣️ is not a personal feeling. Love this explanation
To Penny, my heart goes out to you. I lost my own beautiful daughter in April following a failed double transplant. ❤🙏🤗
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Thank You! Namaste Om
It was at the first festival in 2016 that I saw Rupert for the first time. Thanks for inviting him again. 🙏❤
Hi Rupert: I just had the realization that even vasanas are objects to awareness. I think when a vasana arises in the mind, paying attention to it as an arising object will put a distance on it and dissoluteion of the vasana begins. I think Buddha called this "burning the seeds"???
What EXACTLY is a "vasana", Gregory?
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Wahwah AhaAha wonderful dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude dhanyabad dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad Dr rupertspira dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad
Blessings ☯️🙏🏽🕉
Bahut.bahut.gretitude.abhar.dr.Rupart.spira.thanks
You wouldn’t know being if it wasn’t mixed with all this. It’s both and one must accept all of it and change it if you can, or not.
It starts at 600 of frequency. See the material legacy of Dr. David Hawkins.
I’m from Western Australia
Why Rupert hasn’t been cast in a Harry Potter movie is one of life’s greatest mysteries.
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Why is this this soooooo accurate
I have been trying to find happiness my hole life .I thought it was through money or in a relationship...All of these things have Failed me
It seems Astavakra the ancient guru has reincarted. Astavakra gita is his book.
Exactly Annabelle!!
It would be helpful to distinguish between happiness and peace :
Happiness is circumstantial. - Peace is beyond circumstances
Happiness is mind / ego based - Peace is aware presence
I don’t know... but surely worth giving a thought, sort of speak
How do I establish myself in awareness? What do I do? Is there a practice?
Not on my own support, but that being the 7th billion person I exist because the Great Divine Being love me.
Very nice
i can SAY i am pure happy avwareness and that's the right answer doesn't mean i am experiencing that truth. i understand i can't reach this state with my logical rational brain, im in the not this and not that. so i will stay still and allow reality to be exactly as it is without wanting to change it but wait and look bc God takes the last step, not me. come on God
I miss timestamps. It would be so helpful
Rupert has a Heavens Gate Vibe about him.
Unfortunately they do not have subtitles in Spanish or at least in Portuguese 😔😔😔🙏
si me pagas, yo podria hacerlo. (Bromeando ;) )
Pero...como con Krishnamurti (cuando en España, tenía un libro en español y entendí todo), por eso es bueno para ti ayudar a aprender inglés.
Surete!
@@juliangiulio3147 Te pago jjjj. Si me traduces a Rupert 😅😁🙏, pero si. Te comprendo. Y. Sii quisiera aprender inglés.
2 hours video seems like a roundabout path lol!
How is it that the self does not know itself clearly? Can it be? No, so it is nonsense what he meant. Or knowing knows itself or not, there is not in-between. Who is who knows not so clearly? Awareness? No. Who then? The mind? No, the mind knows nothing, it think it knows but knows nothing at all. So who knows but not so clearly? If this mistake was considered basically all these talks would have never happened.
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DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude dhanyabad dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad Rupertspira dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad
Any contribution we could make would be a phantasm.
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Man looks like he wants to cry in the beginning
I don't get it
Ellen helped the "yes"??!??
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Someone exploded a wet, bubbly fart
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Yeah the message is still divine regardless of the msngr! Nevertheless... What problem are these people solving? IDK, are they aware of all individually unique paradigm-breaking bones-shivering hard-core gangster path they have to take to put that all-positive sugary faces in a balance with the dark shet that sits on the subtlest levels of this thing called our mind?
And where the blast are youngsters in this hype called "spiritual community"? most are retired seniors playing with their time on that 401K money? why?
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Nothing new about this approach. It was invented by Nargajuna, (150-250), and rediscovered over and over again especially by Ramana Maharshi. However, this approach is only a preparatory technique in Buddhism, not regarded as a sole path to the Self. There are other meds, such as accessing "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir". Listen to it for 5 min per day for at least two weeks and tap into Pure Consciousness. Merge with That Transcendental Absolute, the Self of the universe, Pure Awareness.
drop your notion
of you in the ocean
you little droplet you
you are but a drop your
self of a bigger ocean too
did you emerge can you sub
merge in the ocean by being two
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A poor thinking, repeated again and again is still à poor thinking.
Nothing means nothing ?
The thinkings, sensations has no meaning ? Really ?
Let me try to understand, Mr Spira is made rich out of repeating the samedi poor ideas again and again.
Poor old awareness strapped to this mildly ridiculous show ............... but then we did ask to be here.
Love you Christopher love, love you
Rest as yourself, as awareness, and you’ll never have to leave home:)
I love Life! Altho many have it hard, but life , being itself is the goodness
MONITOR THE HUMANOID/TARES AS THEY HAVE EXCESSIVE EYE BLINKING. PEACE&LUV to the Children of the Prime Creator
Seek help, ASAP!
Lol...as if being famous is important in this path..
It might be a very tough situation to be in as opposite to be literally unknown, letting self existence dissolve in its own time, free to flow and behave very naturally not pulled out and act according to the expectations of those who find you inspiring so kind of follow you, I don't know how the ones who are famous cope with it as I had no experience but yeah it's very different and very tough curriculum, may be I am entirely wrong, I am just conveying what my heart feels, but leave it off who cares, I love you tadios love you and your comment is cold water to my sleepy eyes, thank you, thank you, love you, love you
Foolish nonsense!
FINALLY someone with a brain! I agree. Non duality is Total ignorance. Non Duality is simply pretending you don't exist and believing that everything is just God experiencing itself. Non Dualists see intelligence and knowledge and concepts as bad since it's "ego" It's very ironic and hypocritical since these Non Dualists still use technology and live in the luxuries of modern society that came about as a direct result of intelligence, technology and science. Believing in delusions like god experiencing itself has nothing to do with this scientific progress. If You took Rupert and put him out in the wilderness to try and survive without the luxuries of modern society, he would quickly snap out of his non dual delusions if being "enlightened" and become the primate animal he is. All I see from Rupert and pretty much any "guru" is huge egos and narcissism. They pretend they are "enlightened" and have figured out all the secrets and prey on the vulnerable and exploit them for all of their money by feeding them dogma on their so called spiritual "retreats" I think Rupert is just addicted to the attention and admiration he gets from the people he brainwashes. Science and technology has removed more suffering than Non duality ever will. Not only that, technology has the potential to end all disease, death and suffering. Clinging to delusions like Non Duality will not stop suffering.
@@FootyFrenzyHD, you mean delusions such as the INCREDIBLY deluded belief that death can be ended, Silly Sinful Slave? :/
@@FootyFrenzyHD I'm sorry you felt this way last year, Bill. I hope you have since found peace and happiness in your life.
@@FootyFrenzyHD Science and technology bro
Namaste
Thank you.