Once I was walking near the river and saw the image of the trees and the hills on the surface of the river. And the image is nothing than water itself. It helped me in my reflections on Awareness being Experience. Thank you, Rupert, you're my Star 🌟
At the beginning, I thought Rupert was going to correct the questioner for using the term, "ultimately", which implies that something sees, hears, thinks, etc., prior to Awareness. In truth, eyes do not see, ears do not hear, the mind/neurons do not think, etc. Only Awareness is aware.
@@Hydrasword89 Microscope is used to see microbes but microscope is not aware of microbes just like that awareness becomes aware of some thing through senses but senses are not aware of things
@@indicphilosopher8772 seeing is just the experience of knowing the colours and lights. Seeing is made out of awareness/knowing. I didnt say senses are aware of anything. Senses are awareness.
In Hinduism they have four layers of human consciousness 1. Vaikhari( Thinking) 2. Madhyama ( emotion and feeling) 3. Pashyanti(mindfulness; awareness with object) 4. Para( pure consciousness/ oneness/ God / Enlightenment/ moksha)... sadly 99.99 percent of human population dies before even not knowing 3rd stage of human consciousness.....
Thank you sooooo much Master Spira. Your explanations of something that can not be explained, by language but can only be known through experience, are rare to find. We are so lucky to have you, in this time, with us to walk us through. Today’s clarifications of “normal duality”, “enlightened duality”, and oneness, “The ultimate non-duality” profoundly became clearer. What came with it was deep silence and peace without suffering. Thank You and your advanced Questioners. ...and of course TH-cam.
So on a conventional level when you identify with what we call self (those transient thoughts, feelings, perceptions and consciousness of the senses) you then have a subject and object relationship, that is awareness (as subject) identifying with the transient experiences (objects) that are stimulating the senses. On the ultimate level however there is just awareness itself, without this fabricated subject/object duality. All activity or imagery is played out on the screen, yet the screen is ultimately the only thing that is actually there. Good job on explaining this difficult concept.
Well summed up. Just adding, this is not a concept rather the every day living reality waiting for each one's experiential recognition, the greatest a human can dive into with joyful devotion!
A usual Q by Rupert is : Are you aware? Another Q to ask myself is : Am I aware? This brings back to core or ultimate source of our being or existence. Awareness is a faculty or ability that knows. Like a mirror or an image on screen, on which experience arises or happens. The paradox is : Once you are aware or become aware of an object, there is a pull like a magnet or magnetic field or tendency to fixate, to stay and cling on to the object of your awareness. You then become unaware of such fixation or pulling force. You forget to return to your ultimate being or pure awareness. The joke is: Once you are aware OF something, you become unaware of your awareness or your true Self (to use Ramana Maharshi’s term). Rupert’s teaching as I understand is to be alert to this pull and do not get carried away by our experience of the outside world. When engaging in worldly activities or operating our life, don’t get trapped by our own sensually projected images. How? Daily practice and meditation of Rupert’s teachings!
Just by chance (synchronicity) TH-cam's autoplay started this video for me, in which the gentelman addressing Rupert raises the very issue that has been bothering me: how can the screen (awareness) not be aware of the images (dualistic world of illusion) playing upon it? Even if the dualistic world is ultimately not real, from the perspectives of the poor souls locked in it, it is very real, and Rupert always says to trust our experience right? If there is an ultimate reality, one of its facets is made up of our experiences right here and right now in this messed up, dualistic world, and I can't help but think awareness glimmers and shines and refracts through every angle and cut in its multidimensional splendor. But I could be wrong.
I think you're onto something. Even if it is not real, seriously violent movies make me sad. So to the people in this illusion who are being harmed like child abuse, it is "real".
Consciousness reminds me almost of the higgs field. How all particles theoretically interact with the higgs field. Thoughts, feelings, sensations interact with consciousness ...hmmm
+Knowledge it's not peace in the sense of feeling good as an opposition to pain and misery. it's not an emotion, but rather an understanding. by understanding that all emotions, whether joy or misery, are just manifestations of the analytical mind/ego you understand that what you really are is more than that. don't try and translate this to the ego though, don't tell yourself "my mind and body are always at peace", because that's simply not true. awareness is always at peace, although "peace" may be the wrong word, think of it more like a blank slate. on this blank slate you can have pretty things or ugly things but the slate does not become the pretty or ugly thing, it merely displays it. this is still hard to put into practice because of the illusion that we have of time. we often get the feeling, in times of pain and misery, that there will be permanence. time sort of slows down when we are suffering and this is what i think makes negative emotions more intense than positive ones. so the best thing i would tell you would be to know, or rather remember, that there is no permanence in this world. you are awareness pretending to be a negative emotion, but the emotion will go away eventually and you will stay the same. patience is your best friend in this endlessly changing universe.
+skapliece kerfunction,,, thank you. I think it's hard to understand when you haven't had the experience of it. I feel like it'd be impossible for me to have such an experience. But as you said you need to be patient and go with the flow of life. Being aware is the first and probably the last step!
I wish I could be in the audience to ask Rupert a question whenever he asked people are you aware they always say yes I would answer the same but that is because he is directing or helping them focus their awareness in that moment what about all the other moments when we're day dreaming in mentiri churning if someone were to step in and say are you aware yes those mental journeyings and day dreams would fall by the wayside very quickly and once again one could answer yes I am aware but the practice seems to be to be able to say yes I am aware all the while why you are day dreaming and mental I mentally churning and you won't have a comment for this thank you
Awareness is aware of itself without words. It's a non-verbal knowledge. Our thoughts are obviously where we've lived for much of our life, and we believe to know things, we must think it true. But this is only a limited scope of what knowledge is. Truth shines by itself, without needs anything to say it is true. As we rest in awareness, as we bring ourselves back to awareness each time we are distracted by the world and by though, we deepen into awareness, and then one day, we realize we just being, resting in awareness, without the need to verbalize it at all. Best of luck! You can do it. It is only your very self that you are seeking.
Great.... I feel like I understand what you are talking about, but I am still not sure. You said thoughts, feelings, and sensations are all inside me or inside awareness. But only the thoughts, feelings, and sensations of this body appear in my awareness or experience. I cannot experience other people's experience. In other words, my experience or awareness is limited to this body. How to overcome this limitation? If awreness is all there is, how can it be divided or limited? Anyone?
Hello 8 years later. From my understanding, and to go through each of your questions, 1. Every single thought, every feeling (like I am upset, I am afraid), every sensation (like a knee that hurts or a cut finger or being cold or too hot) is happening within this field of awareness that we call ‘I’ or myself, yes? See that it is not limited to that. If you see this on your phone or your computer those too is inside this field of knowing, yes? Your phone that you are reading this on happens inside the field of awareness you and I and all of us call ‘I’. 2. You say my experience or awareness is limited to this body, but is that true? If so, we should be able to find a limit to our experience or our sense of awareness shouldn’t we? 3. It will only feel limited or divided until the understanding deepens. You are that which knows, if you identify with the body and mind you believe that there is world OUT there and objects OUT there and feelings, perceptions, thoughts are seperate from the world and its objects. See that EVERYTHING happens in awareness. There is nothing «out» there, everything happens in awareness and we are all that awareness. Big ego means big belief in the belief that I am here and the world and EVERYTHING else is out there when it is the opposite; everything happens in awareness. Our true nature is simply that, that which knows, that which is aware. From our minds point of view this is impossible to understand because we have clustered and mixed our self up with identifying with thoughts and feelings and what society tells us.
@@asstornaut1066 I wanted to type something but couldn't !!! 'I' is only ONE. 'I' needed something else to type. By the time 'I' found something to type there was no need of typing something which was never there !!!!
This is all a bit silly, if you didn't have a brain then their is no awareness and you could not have experience.we have a brain so we have awareness and experience the world, I'm not being a bit thick but I find all this really silly,we do have awarness of the world inside of us of coarse as we have a brain, if we didn't have a brain their would be no awareness,,, it truly is daft stuff.
I don't see your point. He is not stating that we don't have a brain, more that the things we experience in awareness simply are awareness itself, there is no separation between discriminative thought and awareness.
The relationship of consciousness and the brain may not be such that the brain causes consciousness, it could also be that consciousness causes the brain, and that the brain is a physical manifestation of mind, not the other way around. Part of the problem lies in the fact that consciousness is not a quantifiable or observable phenomena, and neither is mind quantifiable (although as a meditator I would say most of the mind IS observable). So scientific inquiry is at a disadvantage when it comes to dealing with such subjective phenomena. Buddhism in particular is partly a science of mind, based on firsthand experimentation; however universal statements about mind and consciousness should always be tested individually. Nosce te ipsum as the Greeks said. Know yourself. This is more experiential than mainstream science. And the words used and concepts expounded should be taken less literally; they are more guide for your own inner experimentation.
Do you meditate? One of the common experiences people have is the surprising realization that to be aware of one thing for even 30 seconds is quite difficult. So it seems like it would be simple but alas it is not...Just as this seems silly but to grasp it deeply is not
Once I was walking near the river and saw the image of the trees and the hills on the surface of the river. And the image is nothing than water itself. It helped me in my reflections on Awareness being Experience. Thank you, Rupert, you're my Star 🌟
The questioner sums it up beautifully right at the end. "Yes, that is it". Thank you Rupert, this answers so many doubts.
Rupert, Rupert, Rupert! No words to express how much I love you. Deepest Gratitude for what you are sharing. This is a HUGE Breakthrough for mankind.
❤
At the beginning, I thought Rupert was going to correct the questioner for using the term, "ultimately", which implies that something sees, hears, thinks, etc., prior to Awareness. In truth, eyes do not see, ears do not hear, the mind/neurons do not think, etc. Only Awareness is aware.
eyes are neccessary for the human body to have the experience of seeing. Just another "form" of awareness. Form equals emptiness as the buddha stated.
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No, thats what shunyavadins said.. Which is a buddhist sect
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Microscope is used to see microbes but microscope is not aware of microbes just like that awareness becomes aware of some thing through senses but senses are not aware of things
@@indicphilosopher8772 seeing is just the experience of knowing the colours and lights. Seeing is made out of awareness/knowing. I didnt say senses are aware of anything. Senses are awareness.
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Senses are awareness??
You are wrong, sir
In Hinduism they have four layers of human consciousness 1. Vaikhari( Thinking) 2. Madhyama ( emotion and feeling) 3. Pashyanti(mindfulness; awareness with object) 4. Para( pure consciousness/ oneness/ God / Enlightenment/ moksha)... sadly 99.99 percent of human population dies before even not knowing 3rd stage of human consciousness.....
Very well described and explained. Thank you.
I am so grateful for Advaita Vedanta (Swami Sarvapreyananda, Shuyamurti)
Thank you sooooo much Master Spira. Your explanations of something that can not be explained, by language but can only be known through experience, are rare to find. We are so lucky to have you, in this time, with us to walk us through. Today’s clarifications of “normal duality”, “enlightened duality”, and oneness, “The ultimate non-duality” profoundly became clearer. What came with it was deep silence and peace without suffering. Thank You and your advanced Questioners. ...and of course TH-cam.
So on a conventional level when you identify with what we call self (those transient thoughts, feelings, perceptions and consciousness of the senses) you then have a subject and object relationship, that is awareness (as subject) identifying with the transient experiences (objects) that are stimulating the senses. On the ultimate level however there is just awareness itself, without this fabricated subject/object duality. All activity or imagery is played out on the screen, yet the screen is ultimately the only thing that is actually there.
Good job on explaining this difficult concept.
You summed it up well too.☺️
Good job summarising it all in such a nice short way. I was gonna write an explanation for the video as well. Thanks
Well summed up. Just adding, this is not a concept rather the every day living reality waiting for each one's experiential recognition, the greatest a human can dive into with joyful devotion!
A usual Q by Rupert is : Are you aware?
Another Q to ask myself is : Am I aware?
This brings back to core or ultimate source of our being or existence.
Awareness is a faculty or ability that knows. Like a mirror or an image on screen,
on which experience arises or happens.
The paradox is : Once you are aware or become aware of an object, there is a
pull like a magnet or magnetic field or tendency to fixate, to stay and cling on
to the object of your awareness. You then become unaware of such fixation or
pulling force. You forget to return to your ultimate being or pure awareness.
The joke is: Once you are aware OF something, you become unaware of your
awareness or your true Self (to use Ramana Maharshi’s term).
Rupert’s teaching as I understand is to be alert to this pull and do not get carried
away by our experience of the outside world. When engaging in worldly activities
or operating our life, don’t get trapped by our own sensually projected images.
How? Daily practice and meditation of Rupert’s teachings!
My understanding from Rupert’s teaching is that awareness doesn’t know experience but rather that it is the “medium” out of which experience is made
No
Well yes, but in the halfway stage. In the end, whatever metaphor you use, you must dissolve the duality of awareness/experience
Suffering is not there, if there is no resistance, which is the mind activity....
there is no god and other, there is only god.
Brilliant !! Just need to listen to this everyday till it becomes a reality.
How about this intention? :)
the binoculars are a tool but does not do the seeing,just like the eyes are only tools.
This is amazing so informative yet stunningly crucial understanding.
Shri.Ruper spira thankyou so much.what a clarity.
No word to express my appreciation, thank you for such wonderful explanation
As the gentleman says at the end: thank you, that is it.
Just by chance (synchronicity) TH-cam's autoplay started this video for me, in which the gentelman addressing Rupert raises the very issue that has been bothering me: how can the screen (awareness) not be aware of the images (dualistic world of illusion) playing upon it? Even if the dualistic world is ultimately not real, from the perspectives of the poor souls locked in it, it is very real, and Rupert always says to trust our experience right? If there is an ultimate reality, one of its facets is made up of our experiences right here and right now in this messed up, dualistic world, and I can't help but think awareness glimmers and shines and refracts through every angle and cut in its multidimensional splendor. But I could be wrong.
I appreciate your reflection on this topic. Have you had any further insights into this conundrum?
I think you're onto something. Even if it is not real, seriously violent movies make me sad. So to the people in this illusion who are being harmed like child abuse, it is "real".
I don't agree. God must know what sufferance is. Our sufferance is also God's. And God's sufferance is ours in the same way.
So crimes people would call heinous like child rape has no suffering?
Why are objects there, what ans why are they caused and do we have free will in regards to objects
Hablando a esa velocidad, duda que la mayoría de los oyentes, comprenda algo.
Humanity experiencing Spritual Union the first journey. Divinity having human experience the second journey back.
Zatoichiable Will never happen
This is the absolute best explanation ❤❤ Thank you ❤
Suffering is not there. Suffering occurs only when resistance is there. Awareness does not resist anything. So simple. Thanks Rupert.
your awareness is the droplet Awareness is the ocean
You are the best rupert, love you
One without a second.
Would Werner Heisenberg agree?
Amazing, as always
Consciousness reminds me almost of the higgs field. How all particles theoretically interact with the higgs field. Thoughts, feelings, sensations interact with consciousness ...hmmm
Interesting
Bahut.bahut.gretitude.abhar.thanks.for.wonderstanding.bahut.bahut.dhanyabad.Rupert.Spira.
Thank you. Rupert.
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤
It IS experience.
So good thanks
Frustration
This guy is rude af.he stays interrupting. This isnt enlightenment.this is a cult.
Wow.
I still don't understand how it's possible to find peace in severe pain and misery
+Knowledge it's not peace in the sense of feeling good as an opposition to pain and misery. it's not an emotion, but rather an understanding. by understanding that all emotions, whether joy or misery, are just manifestations of the analytical mind/ego you understand that what you really are is more than that. don't try and translate this to the ego though, don't tell yourself "my mind and body are always at peace", because that's simply not true. awareness is always at peace, although "peace" may be the wrong word, think of it more like a blank slate. on this blank slate you can have pretty things or ugly things but the slate does not become the pretty or ugly thing, it merely displays it.
this is still hard to put into practice because of the illusion that we have of time. we often get the feeling, in times of pain and misery, that there will be permanence. time sort of slows down when we are suffering and this is what i think makes negative emotions more intense than positive ones. so the best thing i would tell you would be to know, or rather remember, that there is no permanence in this world. you are awareness pretending to be a negative emotion, but the emotion will go away eventually and you will stay the same. patience is your best friend in this endlessly changing universe.
+skapliece kerfunction,,, thank you. I think it's hard to understand when you haven't had the experience of it. I feel like it'd be impossible for me to have such an experience. But as you said you need to be patient and go with the flow of life. Being aware is the first and probably the last step!
Knowledge j
🙏🏼
I wish I could be in the audience to ask Rupert a question whenever he asked people are you aware they always say yes I would answer the same but that is because he is directing or helping them focus their awareness in that moment what about all the other moments when we're day dreaming in mentiri churning if someone were to step in and say are you aware yes those mental journeyings and day dreams would fall by the wayside very quickly and once again one could answer yes I am aware but the practice seems to be to be able to say yes I am aware all the while why you are day dreaming and mental I mentally churning and you won't have a comment for this thank you
Awareness is aware of itself without words. It's a non-verbal knowledge.
Our thoughts are obviously where we've lived for much of our life, and we believe to know things, we must think it true. But this is only a limited scope of what knowledge is.
Truth shines by itself, without needs anything to say it is true. As we rest in awareness, as we bring ourselves back to awareness each time we are distracted by the world and by though, we deepen into awareness, and then one day, we realize we just being, resting in awareness, without the need to verbalize it at all.
Best of luck! You can do it. It is only your very self that you are seeking.
only God could ask that question or agree or disagree, this brings it all back to ONE :)
Great.... I feel like I understand what you are talking about, but I am still not sure. You said thoughts, feelings, and sensations are all inside me or inside awareness. But only the thoughts, feelings, and sensations of this body appear in my awareness or experience. I cannot experience other people's experience. In other words, my experience or awareness is limited to this body. How to overcome this limitation? If awreness is all there is, how can it be divided or limited? Anyone?
Hello 8 years later. From my understanding, and to go through each of your questions, 1. Every single thought, every feeling (like I am upset, I am afraid), every sensation (like a knee that hurts or a cut finger or being cold or too hot) is happening within this field of awareness that we call ‘I’ or myself, yes? See that it is not limited to that. If you see this on your phone or your computer those too is inside this field of knowing, yes? Your phone that you are reading this on happens inside the field of awareness you and I and all of us call ‘I’. 2. You say my experience or awareness is limited to this body, but is that true? If so, we should be able to find a limit to our experience or our sense of awareness shouldn’t we? 3. It will only feel limited or divided until the understanding deepens. You are that which knows, if you identify with the body and mind you believe that there is world OUT there and objects OUT there and feelings, perceptions, thoughts are seperate from the world and its objects. See that EVERYTHING happens in awareness. There is nothing «out» there, everything happens in awareness and we are all that awareness. Big ego means big belief in the belief that I am here and the world and EVERYTHING else is out there when it is the opposite; everything happens in awareness. Our true nature is simply that, that which knows, that which is aware. From our minds point of view this is impossible to understand because we have clustered and mixed our self up with identifying with thoughts and feelings and what society tells us.
Not two things isn't the same as one thing
non-duality != unity
Dziękuję...!
Brilliant
I like this guy.
million THANKS
Oh i dont understand this, so frustrating😞
+chimenerf Ask questions :)
Awesome!!!
As 'ONE' experiences 'ONE', 'ONE' SEEMS to become 'TWO'. Between this apparent 'pair', 'Everything' apparently happens.
Stephen Scerri TWO, THREE, FOUR.. there is no "ONE"
@@asstornaut1066 I wanted to type something but couldn't !!! 'I' is only ONE. 'I' needed something else to type. By the time 'I' found something to type there was no need of typing something which was never there !!!!
There is no pair in the final step. It is all one experience, because objects are made of awareness.
This is all a bit silly, if you didn't have a brain then their is no awareness and you could not have experience.we have a brain so we have awareness and experience the world, I'm not being a bit thick but I find all this really silly,we do have awarness of the world inside of us of coarse as we have a brain, if we didn't have a brain their would be no awareness,,, it truly is daft stuff.
I don't see your point. He is not stating that we don't have a brain, more that the things we experience in awareness simply are awareness itself, there is no separation between discriminative thought and awareness.
daisilui we cant Look things differently uf they are wrong
The relationship of consciousness and the brain may not be such that the brain causes consciousness, it could also be that consciousness causes the brain, and that the brain is a physical manifestation of mind, not the other way around. Part of the problem lies in the fact that consciousness is not a quantifiable or observable phenomena, and neither is mind quantifiable (although as a meditator I would say most of the mind IS observable). So scientific inquiry is at a disadvantage when it comes to dealing with such subjective phenomena. Buddhism in particular is partly a science of mind, based on firsthand experimentation; however universal statements about mind and consciousness should always be tested individually. Nosce te ipsum as the Greeks said. Know yourself. This is more experiential than mainstream science. And the words used and concepts expounded should be taken less literally; they are more guide for your own inner experimentation.
windwalker583 what’s your point?
Do you meditate? One of the common experiences people have is the surprising realization that to be aware of one thing for even 30 seconds is quite difficult. So it seems like it would be simple but alas it is not...Just as this seems silly but to grasp it deeply is not