I woke up through his teachings and I will be forever grateful more than I can ever say for the rest of my life . Thank you very much , you are a treasure in my heart!
I've watched for 13 minutes now..... and recognize the exact same experience: the questions, the wanting, the research, the books, meditation... and the stopping of following (and giving) lessons. Now for many years I am where I have always been.
Rumi is the poet, that touched my heart so deeply, I found myself writing poetry, some time after that ! What came out, was laid into hiding for fear of judgement and ridicule, for many years. Soul Cry , 1998 There is a place where spirit burns, Where fire blazes, and the soul ;... It yearns .... For freedoms feathered holy friend, To enter heart...and sadness mend . Set me free ! Set me free ! ... Call I with rage... From being prisoner from this cage... This cage of fear and darkened wall, where ego reigns and idols fall... Yet in my despair I hear....... The song of love echoed near, A voice from heaven born of power, Come to save me in my darkest hour ! Trisha
Pure diamonds, love you trisha you, thank you for being so compassionate to share them, and yes I will love to have them more if possible, love you, love you, love you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Beautiful interview. Have been practising / journeying a spiritual path for around 15 years now(around the age of 17). Sharing this online first time coz this video has me really inspired. I can relate to what Rupert shares in this interview at the start a lot. Initially I started mantra meditation from my Sikh religion. It too gave me brief moments of peace however the mind stepped back in and I never really got to the depth of what am I really doing here. For about 7-8 years now I’ve been following Eckhart Tolle along with Sikhism and from Eckhart I learnt and saw how being present to the moment and in awareness was so similar to the experience of mantra meditation as brought peace, however even though i have more clarity on the spiritual journey, am still finding the abiding in present moment awareness lasting for shorter periods and the mind coming back in (just as with the mantra meditation). Have been listening to Rupert for a while now and for the first time (in this interview) am hearing with clarity, what was the intellectual journey as he learnt to abide in present moment awareness. The part where he said that he began to enquire, who is this I, made me do the same. I realised that all this while I had been naming this I, as “awareness” or “spirit” or “consciousness” which again is a thought in the head and not the real I. Then when he said that “Consciousnesses cannot know it, it can only be itself”, it made me realise that I had all this while mistaken my true identity to be a thought called “consciousness” which probably resides somewhere inside my body. However that is just another thought, I realised and that real I can never know itself (just as you can never take a step toward yourself), it can only BE itself. That realisation made understand how to abide in my true self (by simply being myself which means to be in present moment awareness without misconceptions of self and NOT by practising present moment awareness with a mistaken identity of who I truly am). Plus after watching this video a few days later again has me getting a deeper understanding when he said that first he thought he was an entity watching the body and world and later realised that he is the watcher of the mind, body and world made me reflect further on how often I mistake the thinking mind to be me. Thanks so much for sharing 🙏
Hi dear love you, I am on the same path and did exactly what you did and than somehow waheguru jee , let me taste that true self iam now practicing abiding there or being there as much as waheguru jee grants me to be, it's like learning to be totally relax, brother on the way I found Leonard jacobson and this guy literally took off the viels , yeah Eckhart tolle also helped but in my case Leonard really pushed me off the cliff and I just falling and falling, and it's feel like the cage is broken off and bird is free yes of course it often sit on tree tops, branches and early but now it knows it can fly and the whole sky is there to taste and be, love you dear love you
Continue your enquiry. The realization of the Self is the true beginning in life, but not its end. To really dissolve the mind on the heart is the true Path of the Enlightened. All the best
Rupert is brilliant and I think he articulates non-duality as well as anyone on this planet. I'm attending one of his workshops at Esalen next February and am so looking forward to being in his presence.
Rupert is basically in a sense talking about the things Jesus and the Buddha were addressing during there times, simple clear and practical, given the slight abstract terminology, never have i seen someone on the spritual path so honest, awake, alive, passionate, peaceful, realistic (not to mention intelligent) and actually looking like theyre truly living what theyre talking about. hes at the level of people like Eckhart tolle and Osho, truly an enlightened being.
Notice his body language as well, very calm and no resistance. slow movements and never edgy or too nervous looking. you can tell the same thing with eckharts body language too.
simplicity and sincerity what makes this interview unique which actually results in collapsing the duality and we find ourselves in the ever presence just listening to Rupert
The meditation at the end of the video makes me appreciate my true self more than I did before. I now understand fully how my sensations and perceptions are connected to "I". The video was enjoyable to watch and beautifully easy to listen to. Thank you for the post.
Thankyou Rupert, for helping me give more understanding regarding the separate self. This separateness has also bugged me, and found myself always researching the possible logistics of it thru contemplation and great books.
if you think of meditation as a path to enlightenment then it will be probably harder to get there. Meditation is only what it is, i cannot imagine 20 years of frustration, i have alreadh don 18 months and i realised that i was trying togeg somewhere. it is like trying to sleep...the harder you try, the more it evades you.
Concious tv is really living it meaning ,,,it is conscious of it path and goal...doing a the wonderful job of bringing such realised person to interview
Rupert and your guest (at the nd) thank you for the clear and direct presentation, and the direction thru the situation hearing and following your prompts, as well as affirmations (themselves freeing - allowing acceptance -over thoughtful intellect- engaged thinking), a break from "personal' thought. This following demonstrated a crisp image of freedom - the passing nature being free from GETTING (or having to get something) let it flow in and out, perhaps more "tangibly" presenting intangible.
This guy is right on. You have to learn to deal with yourself, acceptance, and having compassion on yourself. Letting shared experience be part of your life, but not extending yourself out and wishing you had the same experiences as others and have your own journey. Then the fear breaks, and you become yourself again. I think this comes from societal pressures and our minds interpretation if why we re lonely, act the way we do, stress. We are so overstimulated that when it stops we think oh something is wrong. This journey sounds very similar to mine, and I appreciate it, but I'm also very thankful for my own. But others journeys are important as well. I think the looking for yourself has to do with expectations and societal pressure as well the mind starts continually looking at the expectations of others and tries to get approval by thinking and acting different, creating a cycle of rejection and disillusionment. When you let it go you are suddenly shocked to find yourself. So much more but very difficult to Express in writing.
"I look within for unhappiness, and I could not find it. Who is this "I"? I could not find it. I presumed that I was the body. But a thought cannot hear. So I stopped looking for myself. I was not an object. I already new myself, by being aware of myself. I was already ultimately aware of who I was. I was not a separate entity. I was conditioned to be a separate entity, but that was not what I was."
Wow~It is such a joy to listen to one who speaks so clearly of deeply looking at what is really happening in our experience of being present in our experience. Love Always~
Agreeing with Roberta and Rachel - wonderful interview again thank you Rupert. You have clarified non-duality for me in a way that I never understood before - life changing 3
Happiness comes from the ego being pampered, whereas sadness comes from these conditionings (superego) but it's the Spirit that gives us the Joy, Joy is a singular!
+ddstar it's all to do with our 'Attention' ...where the attention goes, is the point! we are the Pure Spirit, we are not this mind, these emotions, this ego or these conditionings, we are the Pure Spirit, but we must also BECOME the Spirit! After Self Realisation, it's our attention that becomes enlightened by the Spirit, the Spirit comes into the attention and we become Dharmic!...pure awareness! It's our sustenance, our Attention becomes Sustained, by the Spirit, then nothing can dominate us! we become the witness, the Joyful witness..... the witness of this ego and these conditionings...we are no longer 'In it' we become the witness of it! Shri Krishna said "We are like a tree, that has grown upside down, the roots are in our brain!" But our awareness has taken us downwards to the 'Matter' I.e 'Jihad' is this battle, within, but our attention has gone outside, onto the matter! 'Yoga' is our Attention going to the Spirit...and it's the Kundalini that takes it there!
+ddstar there are three channels of our awareness Ida, pingala and Sushumna, A.U.M ...from r our ascent, our Attention must enter into the Sushumna! On a grosser lever, it governs the parasympathetic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system, but who is this 'Auto'? Sadness try's to illuminate our awareness? feelings are just 'wishes'....unfulfilled wishes! But Love is different, it is not a feeling, Love is dynamic, it acts!
Thank you Rupert for this video. I found it very helpful. May I suggest that you clip the second piece on meditation, which is labeled "The Journey into Presence" apart from the first part of the interview so that it can be accessed directly? It starts at 54:46, and is really wonderful! I tried to bring it up through the TH-cam search engine, couldn't do it. We are blessed by your teaching. Thank you again.
the effort you have put forth has made more easily realized that which seems missed or lacking which then may shorten the journey to peace it then is rest and salvation of the beauty which remains. cheers
It would seem that I am incapable of coming up with a better comment than one that resides below, which states "Rupert rocks," and I would add my gratitude to a fellow creative artist and superlative human BEing
The meditation was and is absolutely beautiful, and to know that we are already this sweetness of being aware of being aware is the most beautiful most wonderful most precious realization there is 🩶.
S'il y a une bonne personne dans le royaume uni et il doit y en avoir plusieurs. Peuvent-elles se faire connaître à vous? Pour ma part je les remercie d'avance.
Trying to find yourself, is like the proverbial dog chasing it's own tail and thinking it's seeing another dogs tail. It takes you to a dead end. MAN, always wants answers to questions. The pain, comes from asking, asking, asking. In Buddhism, it's mentioned alot, WE CREATE OUR OWN SUFFERING! I'd add, we are Often so deluded .we can't or refuse to see it.
Happiness comes from the ego being pampered, whereas sadness comes from these conditionings (superego) but it's the Spirit that gives us the Joy....Joy is a singular! We must be born AGAIN, we all must get our Self realisation! Sahaja yoga is different from other yogas because it starts with self realisation, instead of that being an unobtainable goal of a false practice/teaching! And is ALWAYS free, because Self realisation is a birth right, besides its a 'Living' process, how do you pay a seed to sprout? Www(.) freemeditation (.com)
Rupert must be very strong and capable. Because he is a pioneer. Also Sadhguru and others. Before our eyes there is transformation of humanity is going on. It is like Renessans of middle ages. When Giants came with their missions.
And who's dream would that be? Can you separate the "you" that you know as yourself from thought and thinking? Most thoughts are actually about thought. Do you have one thought that is entirely your own? Can you really know that?
+Ferdinand Alexander but we are not these thoughts and we cannot overcome these thoughts with the mind, we must go 'Beyond' the mind! We must enter into the Turya 'state' (forth state) it is that of thoughtless awareness! Where we are truly present! And this can only be achieved through Sahaja yoga it is different from other yoga's because it STARTS with self realisation! Instead of that being an unobtainable goal of a false practice/ritual! And btw is never ritualistic but a protocol! Watch 'Shri Mataji Brisbane' at the end of this talk the Divine Mother gives Self Realisation!
turyaboy Are you as you know yourself separate from these thoughts. The beyond you are seeking is the mind playing a trick, creating a scenario like the dog chasing its tail. The rest is all nonsense as all so-called spiritual pursuits are. You are simply regurgitating what has been put into you. All the words you’re using are not your own. All the thoughts are not your own. All the experiences regardless of how you interpret them are not your own. Where is the individual there? Where is this “we” you speak of? All these ideas, fourth state, being present, are rooted in that which you are attempting to free yourself from. This tremendous effort to get free only entrenches you in even deeper. As the demand for peace is responsible for war the demand for freedom takes away your freedom.
+Ferdinand Alexander everyone has said the same thing "We must've born AGAIN! We must become the Self,our true Self, the Spirit! It's a common myth that Shri Buddha was an atheist, because He never spoke of God, at all! Because at the time ppl were becoming very ritualistic, or (like yourself) think that, we don't have to achieve anything in this lifetime and so what He said was that "We must become the Self", "We ALL must achieve our Self Realisation!" ......We must become 'Collectively Conscious', our Spirit doesn't 'Think' it manifests! We will never know the meaning of our lives, not until we are connected to the Power that created us! And these are the blossom times, now is the time to get ALL that was promised in ALL the Scriptures!
turyaboy That’s all speculation. All you are saying is what you have learned from others. Not one word is entirely your own. Human thinking to the degree in which it is out of control, is a protective mechanism with only one focus and that is its own continuity. There appears to be a movement of knowledge passed down from generation to generation. Human thinking in its present from may simply be a neurological mutation that nature will eventually correct. I don’t know, again it’s all speculation. That being said, you can see the divisive nature of thought. When the organism is sitting looking there is no you until there is recognition through thought then labeling and there is you and that which you are looking at. Prior to that there is no way you can separate yourself from life because you as you know yourself are not there until thought. What is thought? Where does it come from? How did it start? All speculation using the instrument of thought and this sends one off on a dog chasing its tail scenario. The inherent divisive nature of human thinking is easy to see. The many apparent selves, borders, frontiers, flags, etc. The divisive nature of thought is like a spreading virus. One must come to terms that one cannot have a direct experience of anything. One experiences through the knowledge that is there otherwise there is no way. What we call the organism, the body appears to be immortal. We have assigned the definition and label upon it called clinal death but it simply takes on another form. Nothing is ever born and nothing ever dies. If it does that it was never real in the first place and thus spending time trying to figure it out is futile. It’s like a fiction trying to understand a fiction.
Il n'y a pas un seul commentaire en français, pour cause, les traductions de l'anglais au français sont du chinois. Incompréhensibles. Pourtant quand j'ai découvert votre émission avec Jack o keefe, mooji, Gangaji, c'était un français parfaitement compréhensible. Malheureusement je ne parle pas l'anglais et de surcroît à cause d'une maladie je ne peux rester longtemps sur l'ordinateur. Ben , c'est tout je voulais juste vous le dire.
Who is this 'I' you keep talking about Robert? It is the ego after all! But we are Not this ego, nor these conditionings (superego) nor these emotions, intellect, nor this body, we are the 'Pure' Spirit, and is also this, which we must BECOME!
+turyaboy When you say 'we' are the pure spirit, who or what are you referring to exactly by 'we'? Is we another term for a number or group of 'I's' or is there only one? Rupert has dove into this area before an explained this a few times. You can call it 'pure spirit' 'soul' 'awareness' 'god' 'consciousness' whatever, these terms dont really matter as they are just a form of expression through practical human communication.
+Adam Soullier our soul needs saving, where our Spirit is eternal, after self realisation when our soul and Spirit become one! Our Spirit is the reflection of God almighty, (we, as in its the same reflection in us all!...but a stone doesn't reflect!) it is the witness aspect, we become the witness, the witness of this ego and these conditionings! We can not know the truth, through our intellect, on a 'mental' level, the truth has to be achieved on our central nervous system! If you say to a child not to touch a candle (no matter how much you described to him) he would not know the reality, not until he touches the candle, then it will register on he's central nervous system, as absolute truth, then it becomes reality! The same way God can be 'PROVEN' on our CNS!
+Adam Soullier After Self Realisation we become 'Collectively Conscious' like a drop becomes the ocean, and we start to speak in the third person, because we come to understand that in this 'Matter' we do NOTHING! Only dead works! I.e we make a chair from a tree, that is dead, from the dead to the dead, to the dead! Or if we make a beautiful Palace, from marble and gold etc, what have we really 'made?' Nothing! We can only change the form of matter and handle matter, when it's dead! We can't even make a stone! ALL living work is done by God almighty, but because of ego we 'Think' that we are the 'doer' so after Self Realisation, where we get connected to this all pervading Power, we become an instrument of this divine love, where we become automatically righteous, all these conditionings and bad habits drop out! our Spirit doesn't 'Think' it manifests and we achieve a new awareness of our being, called as 'Vibratory Awareness' where we know the absolute truth, on our fingertips!
+turyaboy After Self Realisation, (the real baptism), our Spirit starts manifesting, we feel a 'Cool breeze' (vibratory awareness!) on our hands as Absolute truth, it's divine vibrations (cool breeze of the Holy Ghost!) the param/ brahma chaitanya, becoming a 'real' Brahmin (the one that knows the brahma, this all pervading Power of Gods Love) and we can feel these chakras on the hands, our own centres and the centres of others, (as catches) and cure them, also give realisation!!! So if we know ourself and others....who is this 'Other' ? There is no other! We BECOME 'Collectively Conscious' when 'I' becomes 'We' illness becomes wellness! BECOMING is the point! Robert might talk a good talk, but he isn't a realised soul! It's a becoming!
I just wonder, if were all, one and nothing, then who is that who incarnates? Who remembers past lifes? How is it decided what we incarnate to? HOW to get out of samsara - birth and rebirth cicle?
***** because the material life is a place of misery, that's why. And even if one is lucky enough to enjoy the material life by being rich, famous, beautiful, and maybe even powerful and influential, still he has to DIE and be born again (and usually in a worse position, for he had used all his good karma in the last life, and if he was "impious" (like eating meat as it involves killing etc etc etc), then he may even be born in a lower species of life compared to that of a human form...) Re nirvana, do you think you just die and you're there? Ha! Tell me more about rewards being given away for free :) Why do you think there exist so many and so difficult yogic and meditational practices? For fun? No, the yogis performing unbelievably difficult things in order to get liberated from the material world. And they reach the stage when they can leave their body when they like without necessity to suffer (because you don't think dying is a nice experience, do you?). Anyway, all this being said, yes, despite all, nirvana is not "the end". There's more to that. Fortunately :) I would suggest reading some Srila Prabhupada's books, and especially Bhagavad-gita As It Is vedabase.net/bg/en
Rupert says that consciousness knows of no separate self. The separate self that we identify with belongs to the body/ mind only. Since you realize your awareness, which means the same as consciousness, is the clue to help you differentiate what is everlasting. When the body/mind dies, so does the memories of it. The real conscious you however which is all knowing and not separate, can again split off and give rise to another separate identity of form and presence which is the re-incarnation talked about. Therefore no one remembers past lives because all lives are separate identities which are part of the limited ( finite ) body/mind. However, the infinite awareness that you experience right now, is the same infinite (non-separate) awareness that everyone is aware of, even after the death of the body/mind. Your body/mind memories are local and temporary to your body/mind only. When you are pure consciousness again without a body/mind, your identity is the all knowing identity of the whole. Or said another way, Only when you return home to pure consciousness, that consciousness is all being and all knowing.
Hey love, that faculty inside you that feels like it NEEDS to know why and how etc... IS the obstacle preventing direct experience of what eternally IS. You can set it down it does you no good :)
I woke up through his teachings and I will be forever grateful more than I can ever say for the rest of my life . Thank you very much , you are a treasure in my heart!
I've watched for 13 minutes now..... and recognize the exact same experience: the questions, the wanting, the research, the books, meditation... and the stopping of following (and giving) lessons. Now for many years I am where I have always been.
I can listen to this guy all day. They all speak this way when they speak from within. The mind is playing little or no part
Rumi is the poet, that touched my heart so deeply, I found myself writing poetry, some time after that ! What came out, was laid into hiding for fear of judgement and ridicule, for many years.
Soul Cry , 1998
There is a place where spirit burns,
Where fire blazes, and the soul ;...
It yearns ....
For freedoms feathered holy friend,
To enter heart...and sadness mend .
Set me free ! Set me free ! ...
Call I with rage...
From being prisoner from this cage...
This cage of fear and darkened wall, where ego reigns and idols fall...
Yet in my despair I hear.......
The song of love echoed near,
A voice from heaven born of power,
Come to save me in my darkest hour !
Trisha
Trisha Emry moving 🌷🌷🌷
This is great
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Pure diamonds, love you trisha you, thank you for being so compassionate to share them, and yes I will love to have them more if possible, love you, love you, love you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful interview. Have been practising / journeying a spiritual path for around 15 years now(around the age of 17). Sharing this online first time coz this video has me really inspired. I can relate to what Rupert shares in this interview at the start a lot. Initially I started mantra meditation from my Sikh religion. It too gave me brief moments of peace however the mind stepped back in and I never really got to the depth of what am I really doing here. For about 7-8 years now I’ve been following Eckhart Tolle along with Sikhism and from Eckhart I learnt and saw how being present to the moment and in awareness was so similar to the experience of mantra meditation as brought peace, however even though i have more clarity on the spiritual journey, am still finding the abiding in present moment awareness lasting for shorter periods and the mind coming back in (just as with the mantra meditation). Have been listening to Rupert for a while now and for the first time (in this interview) am hearing with clarity, what was the intellectual journey as he learnt to abide in present moment awareness. The part where he said that he began to enquire, who is this I, made me do the same. I realised that all this while I had been naming this I, as “awareness” or “spirit” or “consciousness” which again is a thought in the head and not the real I. Then when he said that “Consciousnesses cannot know it, it can only be itself”, it made me realise that I had all this while mistaken my true identity to be a thought called “consciousness” which probably resides somewhere inside my body. However that is just another thought, I realised and that real I can never know itself (just as you can never take a step toward yourself), it can only BE itself. That realisation made understand how to abide in my true self (by simply being myself which means to be in present moment awareness without misconceptions of self and NOT by practising present moment awareness with a mistaken identity of who I truly am).
Plus after watching this video a few days later again has me getting a deeper understanding when he said that first he thought he was an entity watching the body and world and later realised that he is the watcher of the mind, body and world made me reflect further on how often I mistake the thinking mind to be me.
Thanks so much for sharing 🙏
Hi dear love you, I am on the same path and did exactly what you did and than somehow waheguru jee , let me taste that true self iam now practicing abiding there or being there as much as waheguru jee grants me to be, it's like learning to be totally relax, brother on the way I found Leonard jacobson and this guy literally took off the viels , yeah Eckhart tolle also helped but in my case Leonard really pushed me off the cliff and I just falling and falling, and it's feel like the cage is broken off and bird is free yes of course it often sit on tree tops, branches and early but now it knows it can fly and the whole sky is there to taste and be, love you dear love you
Continue your enquiry. The realization of the Self is the true beginning in life, but not its end. To really dissolve the mind on the heart is the true Path of the Enlightened. All the best
Rupert is brilliant and I think he articulates non-duality as well as anyone on this planet. I'm attending one of his workshops at Esalen next February and am so looking forward to being in his presence.
Love Rupert's clarity of speaking and being.
Rupert Spira
Rupert is basically in a sense talking about the things Jesus and the Buddha were addressing during there times, simple clear and practical, given the slight abstract terminology, never have i seen someone on the spritual path so honest, awake, alive, passionate, peaceful, realistic (not to mention intelligent) and actually looking like theyre truly living what theyre talking about. hes at the level of people like Eckhart tolle and Osho, truly an enlightened being.
Great comment, I truly love Eckhart, Rupert and Osho as well. Amazing teachers.
I'd add John Wheeler, Mooji, Nome and Nathan Gil...Tony P. is good too, IMO......
Notice his body language as well, very calm and no resistance. slow movements and never edgy or too nervous looking. you can tell the same thing with eckharts body language too.
Adam Soullier Wow I feel like you really captured what happened w your description :)
Osho was a weird character
simplicity and sincerity what makes this interview unique which actually results in collapsing the duality and we find ourselves in the ever presence just listening to Rupert
I've never heard anyone discuss this 'subject' with such utter simplicity and clarity as Rupert does. This is real wisdom.
Great code: when you have it. You never lose it ❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you so much Rupert for explaining so simple 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The meditation at the end of the video makes me appreciate my true self more than I did before. I now understand fully how my sensations and perceptions are connected to "I". The video was enjoyable to watch and beautifully easy to listen to. Thank you for the post.
I am feeling so taken by this video, and having immense appreciation for Rupert, and Iain alike🙏❤️
So much clarity and kindness! Thank you Rupert and Ian.
Thankyou Rupert, for helping me give more understanding regarding the separate self. This separateness has also bugged me, and found myself always researching the possible logistics of it thru contemplation and great books.
This had added some clarity to something that has been on my mind for years. Thanks
if you think of meditation as a path to enlightenment then it will be probably harder to get there. Meditation is only what it is, i cannot imagine 20 years of frustration, i have alreadh don 18 months and i realised that i was trying togeg somewhere. it is like trying to sleep...the harder you try, the more it evades you.
Concious tv is really living it meaning ,,,it is conscious of it path and goal...doing a the wonderful job of bringing such realised person to interview
very good video and thumbs up for Iain who knows how to listen and intervene discretely
Rupert and your guest (at the nd) thank you for the clear and direct presentation, and the direction thru the situation hearing and following your prompts, as well as affirmations (themselves freeing - allowing acceptance -over thoughtful intellect- engaged thinking), a break from "personal' thought. This following demonstrated a crisp image of freedom - the passing nature being free from GETTING (or having to get something) let it flow in and out, perhaps more "tangibly" presenting intangible.
Rupert is the best teacher out there!
This guy is right on. You have to learn to deal with yourself, acceptance, and having compassion on yourself. Letting shared experience be part of your life, but not extending yourself out and wishing you had the same experiences as others and have your own journey. Then the fear breaks, and you become yourself again. I think this comes from societal pressures and our minds interpretation if why we re lonely, act the way we do, stress. We are so overstimulated that when it stops we think oh something is wrong. This journey sounds very similar to mine, and I appreciate it, but I'm also very thankful for my own. But others journeys are important as well. I think the looking for yourself has to do with expectations and societal pressure as well the mind starts continually looking at the expectations of others and tries to get approval by thinking and acting different, creating a cycle of rejection and disillusionment. When you let it go you are suddenly shocked to find yourself. So much more but very difficult to Express in writing.
Amazing, thanks so much Rupert & Ian🙏
Iian is a really first class interviewer. Ive seen them all, the great and the good, and he is one of the best ✌
Amazing talk.. ! Gratitude.🙏🌺
"I look within for unhappiness, and I could not find it. Who is this "I"? I could not find it. I presumed that I was the body. But a thought cannot hear. So I stopped looking for myself. I was not an object. I already new myself, by being aware of myself. I was already ultimately aware of who I was. I was not a separate entity. I was conditioned to be a separate entity, but that was not what I was."
Wow~It is such a joy to listen to one who speaks so clearly of deeply looking at what is really happening in our experience of being present in our experience. Love Always~
i am in love with my existence now- listening to Rupert is like coming back home
Very clear understanding and communicating what and who we are not.
True honesty Rupert. Tell us that we are 'born knowing! Re-member...
Rupert Spira is truly amazing
Very powerful guided meditation at the end. Namaste.
This is truly mind blowing. I am forever grateful for this 🙏❤️
Agreeing with Roberta and Rachel - wonderful interview again thank you Rupert. You have clarified non-duality for me in a way that I never understood before - life changing 3
Ian, thank you so much for all your efforts in leading us home.
Happiness comes from the ego being pampered, whereas sadness comes from these conditionings (superego) but it's the Spirit that gives us the Joy, Joy is a singular!
+ddstar it's all to do with our 'Attention' ...where the attention goes, is the point! we are the Pure Spirit, we are not this mind, these emotions, this ego or these conditionings, we are the Pure Spirit, but we must also BECOME the Spirit! After Self Realisation, it's our attention that becomes enlightened by the Spirit, the Spirit comes into the attention and we become Dharmic!...pure awareness! It's our sustenance, our Attention becomes Sustained, by the Spirit, then nothing can dominate us! we become the witness, the Joyful witness..... the witness of this ego and these conditionings...we are no longer 'In it' we become the witness of it! Shri Krishna said "We are like a tree, that has grown upside down, the roots are in our brain!" But our awareness has taken us downwards to the 'Matter' I.e 'Jihad' is this battle, within, but our attention has gone outside, onto the matter!
'Yoga' is our Attention going to the Spirit...and it's the Kundalini that takes it there!
+ddstar there are three channels of our awareness Ida, pingala and Sushumna, A.U.M ...from r our ascent, our Attention must enter into the Sushumna! On a grosser lever, it governs the parasympathetic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system, but who is this 'Auto'? Sadness try's to illuminate our awareness? feelings are just 'wishes'....unfulfilled wishes! But Love is different, it is not a feeling, Love is dynamic, it acts!
Thank you Rupert for this video. I found it very helpful. May I suggest that you clip the second piece on meditation, which is labeled "The Journey into Presence" apart from the first part of the interview so that it can be accessed directly? It starts at 54:46, and is really wonderful! I tried to bring it up through the TH-cam search engine, couldn't do it. We are blessed by your teaching. Thank you again.
Wonderful! Really loved the meditation at the end! Thanks for bringing me in touch with such a blissful and nourished state.
Absolutely brilliant, thank you.
Thank you Rupert!
I'm really touched! And it's so concise and full (I had never really seen Rupert before) ...
Rupert Rocks.
the effort you have put forth has made more easily realized that which seems missed or lacking which then may shorten the journey to peace it then is rest and salvation of the beauty which remains. cheers
I Love this fella. Should come up here in Brazil
Awesome!!! Thanks so much!!!
Very clear. I made a leap with this one.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ THANKYOU !
Beautiful thank you!
Rupert's expression presents non-duality in its least distorted form ; the best any language can do...
Thank you very much!
It would seem that I am incapable of coming up with a better comment than one that resides below, which states "Rupert rocks," and I would add my gratitude to a fellow creative artist and superlative human BEing
THANK YOU SO MUCH JILL :)
very nice meditation at the end of the video!!!
Great Video ! very well explained and good meditation
Thank you!!!
Thank you.
Thank you...
Thank you
The meditation was and is absolutely beautiful, and to know that we are already this sweetness of being aware of being aware is the most beautiful most wonderful most precious realization there is 🩶.
Thanks!
thankyou.
Thanks for this post.Some real Aha moments for me.
Awesome!
Iain Mc Nay is a good listener
Love It.
Thank you 8).
geniuos. thank you
The body mind is not an entity.
It is an experience.
Can we say that a truly awaken person is who is awaken even in his dream state?
well said rupert, the body mind is known, the cheek or the thoughts can see or hear...
Very interesting..... I can’t get it. I just can’t separate myself of I. Lack of patience....I know.
Sahaja yoga is the MAHAyoga of this age!
I know, it's the same as looking into your own face without a mirror, this thought used to freak me out.
I think that some of these patterns are more like grooves in a rock than drawings in the sand :)
Magical
I tried to look for myself and found God, I tried to look for God and found myself.
what was the name of the film they were talking about at 45:00 mints?
Film is called "Senna" about race car driver Ayrton Senna from Brazil.
S'il y a une bonne personne dans le royaume uni et il doit y en avoir plusieurs. Peuvent-elles se faire connaître à vous? Pour ma part je les remercie d'avance.
Great
Trying to find yourself, is like the proverbial dog chasing it's own tail and thinking it's seeing another dogs tail. It takes you to a dead end. MAN, always wants answers to questions. The pain, comes from asking, asking, asking. In Buddhism, it's mentioned alot, WE CREATE OUR OWN SUFFERING!
I'd add, we are Often so deluded .we can't or refuse to see it.
YES!!!
That was beatiful OMG.
I can never be happy, I can only become happiness.
Happiness comes from the ego being pampered, whereas sadness comes from these conditionings (superego) but it's the Spirit that gives us the Joy....Joy is a singular! We must be born AGAIN, we all must get our Self realisation! Sahaja yoga is different from other yogas because it starts with self realisation, instead of that being an unobtainable goal of a false practice/teaching! And is ALWAYS free, because Self realisation is a birth right, besides its a 'Living' process, how do you pay a seed to sprout? Www(.) freemeditation (.com)
Rupert must be very strong and capable. Because he is a pioneer. Also Sadhguru and others. Before our eyes there is transformation of humanity is going on. It is like Renessans of middle ages. When Giants came with their missions.
"A separate entiti is seeking for what we are not."
Yes
I think the anchor is mistaken in believing that he and Rupert are in same plane... hope this conversation leaves him a bit more humble.
danke ihrem negative gedanken I, Live you
Everything equally close
Every thought is a dream
whether awake or dreaming
And who's dream would that be? Can you separate the "you" that you know as yourself from thought and thinking? Most thoughts are actually about thought. Do you have one thought that is entirely your own? Can you really know that?
+Ferdinand Alexander but we are not these thoughts and we cannot overcome these thoughts with the mind, we must go 'Beyond' the mind! We must enter into the Turya 'state' (forth state) it is that of thoughtless awareness! Where we are truly present! And this can only be achieved through Sahaja yoga it is different from other yoga's because it STARTS with self realisation! Instead of that being an unobtainable goal of a false practice/ritual! And btw is never ritualistic but a protocol! Watch 'Shri Mataji Brisbane' at the end of this talk the Divine Mother gives Self Realisation!
turyaboy Are you as you know yourself separate from these thoughts. The beyond you are seeking is the mind playing a trick, creating a scenario like the dog chasing its tail. The rest is all nonsense as all
so-called spiritual pursuits are. You are simply regurgitating what has been put into you. All the words you’re using are not your own. All the thoughts are not your own. All the experiences regardless of how you interpret them are not your own. Where is the individual there? Where is this “we” you speak of? All these ideas, fourth state, being present, are rooted in that which you are attempting to free yourself from. This tremendous effort to get free only entrenches you in even deeper. As the demand for peace is responsible for war the demand for freedom takes away your freedom.
+Ferdinand Alexander everyone has said the same thing "We must've born AGAIN! We must become the Self,our true Self, the Spirit! It's a common myth that Shri Buddha was an atheist, because He never spoke of God, at all! Because at the time ppl were becoming very ritualistic, or (like yourself) think that, we don't have to achieve anything in this lifetime and so what He said was that "We must become the Self", "We ALL must achieve our Self Realisation!" ......We must become 'Collectively Conscious', our Spirit doesn't 'Think' it manifests!
We will never know the meaning of our lives, not until we are connected to the Power that created us! And these are the blossom times, now is the time to get ALL that was promised in ALL the Scriptures!
turyaboy That’s all speculation. All you are saying is what you have learned from others. Not one word is entirely your own. Human thinking to the degree in which it is out of
control, is a protective mechanism with only one focus and that is its own continuity.
There appears to be a movement of knowledge passed down from generation to
generation. Human thinking in its present from may simply be a neurological mutation that nature will eventually correct. I don’t know, again it’s all speculation. That being said, you can see the divisive nature of thought. When the organism is sitting looking there is no you until there is recognition through thought then
labeling and there is you and that which you are looking at. Prior to that there is no way you can separate yourself from life because you as you know yourself are not there until thought. What is thought? Where does it come from? How did it start? All speculation using the instrument of thought and this sends one off on a dog chasing its tail scenario. The inherent divisive nature of human thinking
is easy to see. The many apparent selves, borders, frontiers, flags, etc. The divisive nature of thought is like a spreading virus. One must come to terms that one cannot have a direct experience of anything. One experiences through the knowledge that is there otherwise there is no way. What we call the organism, the body appears to be immortal. We have assigned the definition and label upon it called clinal death but it simply takes on another form. Nothing is ever born and nothing ever dies. If it does that it was never real in the first place and thus spending
time trying to figure it out is futile. It’s like a fiction trying to understand a fiction.
Il n'y a pas un seul commentaire en français, pour cause, les traductions de l'anglais au français sont du chinois. Incompréhensibles. Pourtant quand j'ai découvert votre émission avec Jack o keefe, mooji, Gangaji, c'était un français parfaitement compréhensible. Malheureusement je ne parle pas l'anglais et de surcroît à cause d'une maladie je ne peux rester longtemps sur l'ordinateur. Ben , c'est tout je voulais juste vous le dire.
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Que joya!
Gosh, he made me nervous when he took so long to answer the first question.
~ N A M A S T E ~
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meditation is not supposed to be a mean for an end
Stephane Nerbonne it's the beginning
Who is this 'I' you keep talking about Robert? It is the ego after all!
But we are Not this ego, nor these conditionings (superego) nor these emotions, intellect, nor this body, we are the 'Pure' Spirit, and is also this, which we must BECOME!
+turyaboy When you say 'we' are the pure spirit, who or what are you referring to exactly by 'we'? Is we another term for a number or group of 'I's' or is there only one? Rupert has dove into this area before an explained this a few times.
You can call it 'pure spirit' 'soul' 'awareness' 'god' 'consciousness' whatever, these terms dont really matter as they are just a form of expression through practical human communication.
+Adam Soullier our soul needs saving, where our Spirit is eternal, after self realisation when our soul and Spirit become one! Our Spirit is the reflection of God almighty, (we, as in its the same reflection in us all!...but a stone doesn't reflect!) it is the witness aspect, we become the witness, the witness of this ego and these conditionings! We can not know the truth, through our intellect, on a 'mental' level, the truth has to be achieved on our central nervous system! If you say to a child not to touch a candle (no matter how much you described to him) he would not know the reality, not until he touches the candle, then it will register on he's central nervous system, as absolute truth, then it becomes reality! The same way God can be 'PROVEN' on our CNS!
+Adam Soullier After Self Realisation we become 'Collectively Conscious' like a drop becomes the ocean, and we start to speak in the third person, because we come to understand that in this 'Matter' we do NOTHING! Only dead works! I.e we make a chair from a tree, that is dead, from the dead to the dead, to the dead! Or if we make a beautiful Palace, from marble and gold etc, what have we really 'made?' Nothing! We can only change the form of matter and handle matter, when it's dead! We can't even make a stone! ALL living work is done by God almighty, but because of ego we 'Think' that we are the 'doer' so after Self Realisation, where we get connected to this all pervading Power, we become an instrument of this divine love, where we become automatically righteous, all these conditionings and bad habits drop out! our Spirit doesn't 'Think' it manifests and we achieve a new awareness of our being, called as 'Vibratory Awareness' where we know the absolute truth, on our fingertips!
+turyaboy After Self Realisation, (the real baptism), our Spirit starts manifesting, we feel a 'Cool breeze' (vibratory awareness!) on our hands as Absolute truth, it's divine vibrations (cool breeze of the Holy Ghost!) the param/ brahma chaitanya, becoming a 'real' Brahmin (the one that knows the brahma, this all pervading Power of Gods Love) and we can feel these chakras on the hands, our own centres and the centres of others, (as catches) and cure them, also give realisation!!! So if we know ourself and others....who is this 'Other' ? There is no other! We BECOME 'Collectively Conscious'
when 'I' becomes 'We' illness becomes wellness! BECOMING is the point! Robert might talk a good talk, but he isn't a realised soul! It's a becoming!
Breathe buddy
I just wonder, if were all, one and nothing, then who is that who incarnates? Who remembers past lifes? How is it decided what we incarnate to? HOW to get out of samsara - birth and rebirth cicle?
***** because the material life is a place of misery, that's why. And even if one is lucky enough to enjoy the material life by being rich, famous, beautiful, and maybe even powerful and influential, still he has to DIE and be born again (and usually in a worse position, for he had used all his good karma in the last life, and if he was "impious" (like eating meat as it involves killing etc etc etc), then he may even be born in a lower species of life compared to that of a human form...) Re nirvana, do you think you just die and you're there? Ha! Tell me more about rewards being given away for free :) Why do you think there exist so many and so difficult yogic and meditational practices? For fun? No, the yogis performing unbelievably difficult things in order to get liberated from the material world. And they reach the stage when they can leave their body when they like without necessity to suffer (because you don't think dying is a nice experience, do you?). Anyway, all this being said, yes, despite all, nirvana is not "the end". There's more to that. Fortunately :) I would suggest reading some Srila Prabhupada's books, and especially Bhagavad-gita As It Is vedabase.net/bg/en
Rupert says that consciousness knows of no separate self. The separate self that we identify with belongs to the body/ mind only. Since you realize your awareness, which means the same as consciousness, is the clue to help you differentiate what is everlasting. When the body/mind dies, so does the memories of it. The real conscious you however which is all knowing and not separate, can again split off and give rise to another separate identity of form and presence which is the re-incarnation talked about. Therefore no one remembers past lives because all lives are separate identities which are part of the limited ( finite ) body/mind. However, the infinite awareness that you experience right now, is the same infinite (non-separate) awareness that everyone is aware of, even after the death of the body/mind. Your body/mind memories are local and temporary to your body/mind only. When you are pure consciousness again without a body/mind, your identity is the all knowing identity of the whole. Or said another way, Only when you return home to pure consciousness, that consciousness is all being and all knowing.
Hey love, that faculty inside you that feels like it NEEDS to know why and how etc... IS the obstacle preventing direct experience of what eternally IS. You can set it down it does you no good :)
You’re watching the Devito/ Schwarzenegger hit Twins. welcome to the simulation
It is the demand for peace and happiness that create war and unhappiness.