All Experience is the Activity of Awareness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2020
- A man asks for assistance with understanding that experience is made of awareness.
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I think this is the most revelatory thing I’ve ever heard. I need to listen to this several more times I think
Rupert is wonderfully articulate, patient and very knowledgeable.Thanks Rupert!
I like the questioner. He is really trying hard to understand and by asking these questions some of which may seem quite simple to answer he forces Rupert to give more detailed answers the content of which enhances our understanding!
Absolutely love your username!:)
Awareness is the Sand & Experience is the Sandcastles ❤️🌀❤️
Now, that's a good metaphor
What the heckkk does that mean?
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Wow, amazingly said 😍
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The true paradox is that knowing is not made out of information.
Yes!!!
Information is made of knowing.
It's not really a paradox. Some things are just obvious and can be known directly.
@@moonglow6639 true but it's a paradox to the mundane understanding of. . . understanding.
@@TheHandOfMadness i think it’s less a paradox and more of a previously underrated truth made simply delightful
After pain, grief, and an identity crisis - I’ve deeply discovered this. It’s true. We are one Awareness. One formless awareness is experiencing form.❤️🌏🌻😊
Wow. Bless you!
Very delighted to see you here! Your messages strike with the same profundity as my own synchronicities
and I can only imagine similar pathways lead you to Neo-vedanta the like of Rupert. Thank you for your inspirational work;
it's fruits have soon but yet to blossom. 🙏🏿
Take care friends ❤️❤️❤️
@@ArianaReflects first we think that awareness is rock steady but it's not , and instead of that it's always vibrating like heart, or blinking like eyes or breathing like breath, and when it's vibrate it gives forms of body mind or world , and think about that if it's not vibrating then who be will contemplating the contemplator , it's always gives us it's footprint in heart, eyes and breath
@@rathodnarendra5255 ❤️❤️❤️ yes 😊
Awareness brought my guru as Rupert .. Its so amazing... To listen. Each word
Awareness is the Air & Experience is the Wind ❤️🌀❤️
Wow!
I like this. I’m a sucker for nature metaphors:)
Cry of the wind spirit of fire 🔥
“There is only knowing. Knowing, knowing knowing.”
Crazy ha
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@@carlavela7106 amazing
Whatever you think you are, that’s not it
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
That means we are not anything
Rupert, I'm deeply in love with you, with That on behalf of Which you are talking. I can't take my ears off you, I've just begun reading your book - I can't take my eyes off you. When I first encountered your video, I thought: I can't trust his words, they are too suspecious, he must be talking nonsense. And continued listening to Mooji and Eckhart Tolle. But not long ago I played your video again, and your infinite Wisdom became clear to me. I realized I hadn't just been ready for you then. And now I adore your profound way of expressing the Truth❤️
"Each body mind is a localization of infinite consciousness through whose agency infinite conciousness sees itself as the world" - RS.
I am going to permanently etch this on my mind.
Beautifully expressed confusion by the questioner btw...
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How do you know that others are conscious ? How do you know others are sentient/exist like you ? What if you are dreaming ? Do you know anything about others other than your own knowing/experience of them ? I don't know the answer myself..
@@moonglow6639 Honestly, these questions are meant for the likes of Rupert and Eckhart. You should ask them directly but from my limited level of knowing one thing I can totally bank on is my experiences in life...Whenever emotionally detached from the event , I have been left with a ceratin lvl of original, distilled knowing that I know ...IS MINE. I don't use Mine as an egoic word rather as a personalised version of the experienced play by the localized conciousness in a body, as Rupert puts it....That filtered component cannot be replicated, duplicated, explained, rationalized or even qunatified( as sense percetion will be used as active agents to do so and that too varies in each of our understanding)
Two things in this talk and another by RS went st through my heart. Like an aahaa moment. "Between 2 thoughts lies love", and when he put his hand down like in a funnel motion...indicating localization of the big C.... That got me, instantly that sonething has narrowed itself, shrunk, reduced, limited ...whatever to fit into this body and wears coloured glasses to enjoy the movie, it has created to entertain itself . If it didn't, all ...all..would be pure C. What seperates us are the layers and veiling of different thought constructs. Remove the glasses, the thoughts and the body what is left is love..big C.
Many ppl intellectually explain the same thing but when done that way it feels like a superimposition of an alien concept....when done through the heart centred approach, heart to mind way, it suddenly makes a lot more sense. Like being inside a zorb ball and then looking outside. Not looking at the zorb ball and trying to locate the centre. ...don know if that makes sense.
Answering your questions, rather vaguely but honestly next.
How do you know that others are concious ?
...How can you? As long as the instrument being used to know are your limited sense perception? If that "know" in the question is the body mind trying to know...then the answer is no. If it is the big C identifying the big C then yes. Conciousness recognizes itself. Its the purest, the one and only state ...common to all. The HCF and the LCD of all lifeform. But the dynamic body/mind of each cannot not (fully) even partially claim the same.
So depending on what is trying to know what...the answer is a no or a yes.
How do you know others exist like us?
... Any reason to not believe that unless proven otherwise or till not indicating lifelessness? Again only mind will ask that question...limited instrument. Big C won't. It will simply know.
If we believe that the seperation is of mere thoughts else all is One then yes, others also must be existing but peeking at the world sitting in their bubbles and through their filtered glasses. Any interaction, reaction, stimulus_response with that body mind should be sufficent proof of their existence - again to keep the mind satisfied with an answer. C will simply know.
What if you are dreaming?
I most certainly am as long as I feel the seperateness. The so called waking state is the biggest trap of the matrix. It is a state of amnesia within which we physically sleep and then dream again....perhaps enter the sub concious mind. In REM we remember the contents, if blankness occurs then perhaps we have entered the minds eye of darkness....deep sleep. Not sure.
Do you know anything of others other than your own experience of them?
..Yes, I once had a concious experience of a bird flying. Too much to describe here but will say...if even for a moment, a state of thoughtlessness exists, it is possible to pierce the body mind complex for a fleeting second and fuse with the universal consciousness... if not more.
That is my only claim to fame...oneness with a bird 😊 .
Other states I feel highly connected to ...something powerful is when I look into a baby's eyes ..or anyone's with a stable, happy, overflowing energy for that matter...its pure love, a sort of reflection, something staring back....I cannot describe it.
Its eerie how i thought of this line of thinking without much input a year ago. And now im hearing the exact line of thinking articulated in a more beautiful way. Thoughts are shared in the web that is the subconscious mind.
Rupert, thank you especially for explaining more on the yoga meditation! 🙏❤
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Maravilloso y clarisimo, que gusto da como explica. Muchísimas gracias!!!!
Sí! Y no hay NADA que entender.
@@nocosa Es cierto!! Ja, ja qué bueno!
Thank you, Rupert ... for bringing in the insight in the third step ... this gnosis realizes the final step to remain established in That and return home.
In meditation I became Aware of a torus flow. I am at the centre. What truly is comes from I. Gets dissolved in I and is not apart from I.
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤
The wind searching for air finds it by realizing that it is it. The search ends with the realization that nothing was ever lost.
The reason the body seems to exist separate from awareness of it is because there are multiple TYPES of things we are aware of. Aware of direct sensations AND aware of a three-dimensional mental map of a body. This makes it seem like there is awareness (of sensations) and an actual body in which they are felt. But the “actual body” is just the knowing of a mental image or picture (thought) of a body corresponding in which we place the sensations. But BOTH are made of knowing.
But don't you need the body to know?
ceeloc We’re saying there is no line between being aware of something and the something. If there is a separate something the only way you know is your awareness of it.
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Its nice to see the faces of seekers as questions arise. I imagine a lot of intellectual conversations after the talks and I wonder if I would be able to join the conversations with freedom and confidence, or more likely with fear and hesitance
I am you and you are me and we are all together.
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Exactly!!!
Being together is not an achievement because we are already all together on this world
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Actually it is "I am he as You are He as You are me and We are All Together" John Lennon from I Am the Walrus
@@snowdog87 stop believing in lyrics of songs
beautifully explained by the perfect love itself.
The mind that refuses to accept the non dual model will always find many objections and there will not be a way to change its old conditioning For this kind of person (as I myself used to be) suffering seems to be the best teaching This is like a child that refuses to taste a delicious candy that had never tasted before just because he or she dislike its shape or its envelope
There is no candy and there is no mouth, the candy has to taste the child that. Let the candy taste you child, why are you afraid? You dont exist and you are your parents. So you actually had sex with yourself and your father and mother and grandparents since its all just one candy filled with all of the sperm of all your relatives. What a stupid fearful child!
We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively
Sincere gratitude for this beautiful discourse.
Thank you 🙏🏻 💕
The sense of not being the face while the face is moving. The sense of not being thought while it is happening. The sense of not being the finger that moves when it moves. This sense do exist and I know for a fact that it completely dissolves any sense of psychological distress (however frightening it may look on the outside to others) but I have never ever trusted this sense and stayed with it always. The reason for this seems to be because I am afraid of something. Perhaps the idea that what I am doing is deluding myself.
It’s so different to act from this center of awareness too where everything seems unknown... it’s as if all pretending has been thrown out the window. The sense of trying to be a character in a movie is completely gone.
I just wished I had the courage to not eventually berate this state and start identifying with body again as I have done over and over again for years. I am really tired of suffering. Why don’t I just trust this simple experience of awareness where all that happens is part of a mystery rather than try to quantity and control everything with a rigorous sense of emotionality.
Some days forward from now and I will start to berate what it is that I am claiming to be aware of and I’ll become miserable again.
I am afraid of that it might be a manufactured state and therefor in some sense “false” and “no more true than any other experience” but if it leaves me out of misery then why don’t I just respect that fact and stay there? Regardless of wether it’s a manufactured state or not.
It’s as if I want to be in misery rather than be unsure of where I should stand intellectually. Because that is what this feels like, it’s a state of not knowing what life/experience is. And out of this unknowingness actions arise.
11:36 the most important
Awareness is the key
When Rupert asks for evidence, I would like to point out, that a person who's born blind cannot think of colors. We can only experience that which we percieve. A human mind is limited, in that it cannot know. It can only believe. I believe, 3D matter does infact exist, just not in the way that we percieve it. Everyone and everything you know is connected to eachother, but only in perception. All of perception is in the mind. Essentially, we are all gods of our own universe. That is to say, life as we know it, is a narrative written by perception.
Each one has to find it for him/her self...
great Q & A
Please, there is no localization. There only seems to be. It is so important to clarify this!
1 pattern, ...all paths lead to 'nothing' 😊
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Awareness is just an approver of its own mind wake it is living.
Isn't what Rupert does the Socratic Dialectic... i.e. leading by questioning?
Yes I suppose you could define it that way, but in this way Rupert (and many other teachers) are able to point towards something which we can discover in our own experience without preaching about it.
Telling gives intellectual information and questions bring experience. Experiencing makes the lessons last.
love Rupert, i must say though i'm at a stage where this idea of all things being made of knowing n consciousness has still not become apparent to me - lord knows it's not good enough to simply believe it, i hope i 'get it' one day
The thing is, even after getting it you have to work on remembering it.
I'd much rather have a strong philosophical or intellectual basis.
Just experience results in cults and beheadings.
Let's say the pitcher is actually a vase of flowers that aren't there. Compare, contrast, and discuss: flowers in our minds are like chess pieces in that scene in Searching For Bobby Fischer in which the master shows the rising young chess genius how to see the pieces on the board in their wholeness ten moves ahead by--do you remember this?--knocking the pieces onto the floor. When you can grasp the flowers, grasshopper, you may go.
The reason most people don't get this is they are so conditioned 😪 when u get it its beautiful 😍
ok so what happens to the world if I close my eyes is it still there?
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The only knowing is the knowing of the known knowing knowing My absolute is bigger than your absolute i just know the knowing of it and in the words of Peter Gabriel..."Its only knock and Know all but i like it"
I am rich 🤠
MASTER, SPIRA ji, I am seeker, i am following Path of "Light & Sound ". In my view one must "DIE (not Physically) to LIVE". Is this condition applies to all PATHS before "SELF REALISATION "
Thanks a lot. Very beautiful.
I had two questions:
1. If I’m not wrong, in non-dual teaching(s) it is said that - a. Consciousness does not know or experience the suffering because It has no resistance. b. Consciousness is experiencing itself as the world. c. Experience is real and Consciousness is experiencing exactly what we all (as seemingly separate selves) are experiencing.
If the above is correct, my question is why then we say that Consciousness does not experience the suffering? Isn’t suffering an experience? If Consciousness does not experience the suffering, who then, is experiencing it?
In the experience, pain and suffering are real. Considering that in all experiences, it is the Consciousness that is experiencing the experience, isn’t it the Consciousness that is experiencing the suffering or paining?
2. When it is said that there is only seeing, or smelling, or hearing, etc., (for instance, in the experience of smelling a flower and hearing a piece of bad news), the content of the smelling (the smell of the flower) and the content of the hearing (the sad news) are different. Is it the same for the Consciousness when It is experiencing the seeing and the hearing?
For us (whether we recognize ourselves as Consciousness or not), each experience we are experiencing is completely unique (the content of the experiences are totally different). Is it the same for the Consciousness? E.g. What is the difference between reading a beautiful poem and having a severe headache? Aren’t they different experiences for the Consciousness?
As I understand, Consciousness (the real you) is observing your (ego self)experiencing process without any judgment. There’s only observing, nothing else. For me it’s the only possible explanation. Of course it’s possible that misunderstanding took place.
i always notice that doctor spira shirt matches the curtains behind him , does he have physic powers or does he just guess what colour the curtain will be before he turns up there ? 😂
I can’t disregard the material model that easily! After all, matter is what holds us together. Matter is what we evolved from. Thoughts?
On the contrary, matter is what gives us the illusion that we (as the bodies) are separate from each other. The qualities you attribute to matter actually belong to consciousness.
Im watching the video on my phone whilst taking a shit in Ukraine.
All matter is made from stars.
In our human bodies there are millions of cells each has its own machinery.
And all those perceptions are happening inside of consciousness:)
Can there be a maker a dreamer of this universe and brings it into a suspended illusory existence from ITS perception/awareness AND IT being suspended (as a dream) we can enter (birth) it and leave it (death). Now while we are here, we experience it through our perception/awareness. In other words, it's in my awareness/mind as an experience. I did NOT create the Universe (dream) but I do create it IN my mind AND in my mind NOT as an object but AS an experience (only) in awareness/perception. And in infinity, there are many universes /realities that can be visited through Cause Effect??
is it all Knowing?
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The people in the public all look so tired and unhappy ☹️
Namaskaram, this made me laugh as I am in the audience (bottom left). At the time I was deeply miserable as I was relentlessly seeking happiness. From my experience I can tell most people are deeply miserable as everyone is seeking lasting happiness. It's just that most people are keeping themselves occupied just enough not to feel their deep misery. Seeking brought me where I am now. I am joyful, energized and very active. Just felt like replying to this comment. Everyone is seeking, the only question is will you seek unconsciously or consciously.
@@armindizdarevic9576 haha oo im glad youre doing great sir thats awesome haha yeah the public caught my attention i noticed i was getting depressed watching you guys 😅 like i mean you guys are just seeking happiness youre not in a war fight or something haha their are so much worse things in the world right sir i mean you could say fuck happiness i dont care about happiness when you truly dont care happiness follows you. But thank you for your reply i understand now ❤️best wishes
NO ONE, Armin...I greatly appreciated your very nice exchange...so refreshing to see such kindness online, especially around such a nice and interesting chance meeting! I wish you both well and much continued happiness along your journeys. 😊
@@tvdmusic i think its your quality and class that you can see all those things you must be a great person and thank you sir much appreciated best wishes to you ❤️
I can't even show you knowing
What can be attributed to knowing? Its timeless, colourless, placeless, shapeless existence.
@@seangrieves4359 The true paradox is that knowing is not made out of information.
@@TheHandOfMadness absolutely. True knowledge is the one who's knows. Known "things" subtle or gross can only be said to be true by proxy of the self. I am primary. Body mind world secondary knowing. My paradox is that before I looked in to non duality, I had pre-conceived belief that non duality would be something clever people knew. "The world" i Always wanted to understanding its nature through the belief i was apart from it. This is impossible. Since the nature of I and the world are the same.
I'm certainly not against Rupert' positive message concerning the dream play but, The position Rupert holds has a big hole, a fundamental error in understanding and recognising the Absolute Truth of What is. Upon years of meditation, honestly looking, observing, and contemplating, it became clear to me, why The Absolute can never be placed on the known side. All rupert' talks clearly indicates why he never truly understood Nisargadatta's statement . "Knowing is fraudulent". The mind of Rupert has clearly misunderstood the Absolute as a self- reflecting consciouness. Knowing or being aware of being aware which implies self consciouness or self awareness. This certainly is not what The Absolute is, being aware of being aware is due to the feature of human mind of it's body form which works much better in human forms than other life forms. The Absolute is certainly not a reflecting consciouness, but prior. This is why the Buddha rejected any Self knowledge formed this way. Nisargadatta made it very clear why the Absolute can never be the knowledge I AM , but prior. "You can only know what you're not, you can only be what you're" Nisargadatta . By no coincidence, lao Tzu made the same statement regarding one's true nature. " you cannot know it, but you can be it". Although rupert does display some intellectual understanding of negation , he hasn't quite understood the 'WHY' . The Absolute never shows up on the known side, it alone is the UNKNOWN , yet IT IS, because, it is the one negating all that can be known. Everything can be talked about even explained but it is The Absolute alone that remains unexplained by its very nature of being the Absolute. The Absolute freedom never was, is, nor will ever be found in the Known, but, by its very nature , the Absolute is free from the known. No rituals, no tantric practices is going to make a single difference concerning the Absolute. All these concepts of practices or activities are only ignorance in form reinfocing the illusory, non- existing entities only for perpetuation . A mind has a million reasons to not let go, but, All knowledge will miserably fail in the end, so why not just let go and just BE.
Is this what you know from experiencing it or knowing from reading it?
@@clckwrk0rng391 The same question was asked to Nisargadatta , his reply " I cannot tell you what I Am, I can only tell you what I Am not". If one were to honestly and sincerely contemplate on the phrase , a clear understanding of the implication can certainly dawn . David bohm had the right idea with his statement concerning the Absolute. He stated " I think what really is ( Absolute) is the UNKNOWN , which appears to be known . if anyone can speak of the Absolute in a positive affirmation, that is exactly what the Absolute is not. That is the true implication underlying the phrases like " WHATEVER you know, cannot be YOU ( Absolute) so, discard it" Nisargadatta. " you cannot know it, you can only be it". Lao Tzu. Everything can be known , spoken and even explained except the Absolute. If it has to be spoken, It can only be spoken in negation.
@gl ml thank you for sharing a wonderful point of view. Yes ! Being able to say " I do not know" certainly speaks volume over uttering ten thousand words of misunderstanding. Thank You for your understanding!
@@usr909 Well said.
@@joajoajb We are the absolute...and we forget That we are That....Rupert tries to bring visitors back to their true nature (Satchidananda). When he talks about knowing, (in short) in the model he uses, it is the same as awareness or consciouness...the empty space.
To make it clear he uses teachings from the advaita vedanta (Brahman) and tantric, Kashmir Shaivism (Siva, Shiva)
Rupert always talks from the point of view from which an experience consists / is made. The only thing you will eventually encounter is awareness, consciousness or knowing.
Aware of being aware, conscious of being conscious, knowing knowing knowing.
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Maybe you know this channel.
Can they speak in English?
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British english or American english?
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