Eternity Is Ever-Present Now
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ต.ค. 2017
- A 13-year-old boy asks if awareness has always existed. The presumption that time exists, inherent in his question, is then explored.
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Beautiful that the kid’s parents are exposing him to such a compassionate non-dual teacher. And the kid is extremely bright, loved his responses.
Also this kid is gonna have a wonderful life - most people who are exposed to these teachings are like 40+ and have sought them out due to intense suffering in their lives.
I know time is not real as such. But even as I sit in the present, perfectly still, I have this sensation of moving forward. Like this motion, or flow.. It's not the same as psychological time, but just a movement - hard to explain...
The truth should be simple enough that an 8 year old could understand it. That's what my first teacher used to say,
Here's what another teacher had to say: "If it made sense, it wouldn't be the Truth." Robert Adams
Thuth is infinite simple. BUT, delusion is infinite complex. You cannot know thruth, but unkwoning untruth so only thruth remains.
Excellent responses.
Ii would have liked to meet a teacher at that age, i had an insight at 5 where i suddenly realized oh, where ever i am everything appears, I'm the source of it, i don't know how i come to this but it obviously led to the next question, then who am I.
Probably everyone starts their search with some childhood event. When i met Ramesh Balsekar in the mid 90s he was also of this opinion.
All you are doing is imposing conditions on the truth. The truth is the truth because it is true - not because it matches up with some arbitrary conditions, and especially not because it matches what some fallible human being said.
Truth, in the way they said it was same as 'teaching'. So the teaching should be simple enough for a child to understand it, i don't think its a big call, Rupert is demonstrating it in this video... and plenty of kids are open to truth, I was an example myself..
But I'm not up for debating this with some youtube person. So go find someone to debate your merely intellectual understanding elsewhere.
I could listen to him talk all day... 💜
Eternity is one moment for everything, confidence, wholeness, protection, prosperity, healing and deliverance
Young Alexander is a teacher for the future..even though there is no such thing as the future
Brilliant little mind, by her answers its obviously sinking in..
Este hombre, Rupert, se explica maravillosamente. Muchas gracias por subir todos estos vídeos.
Great question, great answer! Unfortunately, the dualistic mind is not designed to understand or make sense of non-dualistic truth - it can only be realized through intuition, which is devoid of concepts. The best we can do is point toward truth. The pointers that help me: Eternity is the river bank and time is the river. Or: Eternity is the clockface and time is the ever-moving clock hands. Or: Time is the actors and scenery, eternity is the stage. Or: Eternity does not move through time, time moves through eternity. And: Time is ever-moving, eternity is ever-still.
Wonderful comment and I do see real value in the pointers you shared. Thank you. But isn't Rupert saying that great teachers before him, himself to some extent, and every person can use their minds to get glimpses at this non-dualistic truth? There seems to be some contradictory statements made. Sometimes I here that the mind can not understand this. Other times, that understanding is what is being taught. If the mind can not understand it, how was it figured out in the first place so that it could be taught?
Brad have you read "Silence Of The Heart" by Robert Adams? If you have what did you think.
No I have not, but I certainly will right away. Very grateful for the suggestion.
Lori Shaw the book is hard to find but you can get it here for a reasonable price
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For me this is one of the greatest books I have ever read. Hope you enjoy it 😊
Lori Shaw The separate self can understand the separation aspect, but the last step of the collapse is not knowable because there is no longer anyone there to know, there only is what is.
It’s so simple. “Now” is eternity. If we put our minds into “the moment” We are eternal. 😊 The past and the future are just concepts!
Just beautiful.
most iconic kid on the planet
Just incredible! Many thanks! I reflected on this earlier, but tried to figure it out with my mind. And of course I had failed. And just developed my imagination 😂 and now I'm able to see with my "inner eyes" what is true, real and what is just taught to us by our parents and society, what we believed to be true without asking any questions, without doubting its being real. You opened my "inner eyes", Rupert! ❤️
What a wonderful interaction and teaching. Thank you for sharing truth.😊❤
Holy shit that kid is gonna be woke af
😂😂😂
Eternity is not a long period of time forever. Eternity is the thing that makes you NOT ask 'when' which is, 'insecurity'.
Thank You very much for sharing. With Love 🌹
Thanks for this
thank you!
Thanks!!! 🙏🙏🙏👌👍
Excellent descriptions!
I've learned so much from you...namaste.
We were in paradise where everything that is created was just there for the sake of beauty
Hi, Even Einstein wud agree with Rupert! Einstein said Time is RELATIVE to Movement, ie: Time depends on movement to exist: If we isolate an object and that object absolutely does not move (meaning not even its atoms move), time cannot possibly take place in/for that object. It will remain the same object forever. "Entities" such as Awareness, Will, Attention or Agape do not move in space so they cannot be affected by time. They are therefore indestructible and eternal "entities." Best wishes.
Honesty Fenix / l
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To experience the past means to experience confidence, wholeness, protection, prosperity, healing and deliverance all at one time. What is one word for everything that's good?
Time(insecurity, incompletion, vulnerability, sickness and bondage)
Now does not exist in time. Time exists in "NOW". Time is not real. NOW is real. We can only experience right "NOW". We cannot experience Time.
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This is from the human perspective of course. But you could assume based on the theory of special relativity that it goes backwards and forwards, we just cant yet percieve this.
+grant nover ..Theories exist only in thought...nowhere else. Time only exists in the movement of thought. No thought...no Time....
Yeah, it all goes back to relativity.
How do some "memories" have a greater correspondence to "facts" than others?
Past is past we cannot change it anyways.
photons have no time...there and there at the same time...so that star or galaxy at a earlier time? billions of years ago...the photon then...billions of years ago is there and now here at the same time...no time really and I think it is the now or eternity for that reason. I have always struggled with the now in the sense of what has just been said but recently realised that that photon there and there in the past so to speak and here now billions of years later must mean this now is actually eternity
If only he had told her about the animals not having sense of past and future, and requested her to remember the time when she never knew what was a clock, that was going to be easier to understand. We must be like children , the path is to return backward to the unknown.. he is teaching her with the intellectual abilities, as per say to know God you must not know, neti neti.
God is eternally incomprehensible. There is no logical solution
he said the contrary to her.
But why our bodies aging and die and when I think about idk French Revolution I can't help to think this is a moment in the past
Is " knowing" where they talk about, the same as love?
To me it looks like it and it feels like it.
Welmoedt
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Same as love,Same as knowing
Baboom.
With all the Recollections of History, the Past used to be the Now, for all those people who lived in the Past. Right? Am I missing something?
that's a fiction, nobody lived in the past
Got it.
But there is photograph to prove there is a past
So, am I an infant now as I am also and old lady now?
Adam, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to respond. I kind of understand that, but my mind did create that reality at one point (I have pictures!) Is it creating all of my "realities" at the same moment/now?
No. Instead, you (and everything) is constantly changing. Some of those changes include a person growing up. It's just here and now in constant flux.
This universe is a big lie that consciousness tells itself. You are pure consciousness and misinterpreting and misperceiving and mis-experiencing yourself as subject and objects dualities. You as a separate self and what you see and experience as real are nothing but your own misinterpretations of your true self.
"In order to know that something exists, we have to be able to experience it." Isn't that just empirically false? To truly KNOW something, yes, we must experience it, but do know something EXISTS, we don't have to experience it. I know my small intestine exists and digests my food, but I do not experience it. A blind person would be well aware that seeing exists, but they will never experience it. Obviously, in order to KNOW seeing, the blind person would need to be given sight, but to know that sight "exists," the blind person does not need to see. So although we are eternally in the present (we exist in just one dimension of time, and it's moving forward) this does not imply that the past and the present don't exist. Imagine a being that lives in a higher dimension than us, maybe in two dimensions of time, and 4 spacial dimensions. In the same way that I walk forward and move in space, they, perhaps, could move forward and backwards in time.
I am eternally grateful to Rupert for waking me up, in very simple terms, to my true Self as Awareness experiencing this body/mind and world. However, after this realization, going solely based off experience seems limiting because then it removes us from pondering what the ultimate Truth could be. There is nothing in my experience that doesn't also point to the cosmos being a sort of advanced MMO game, with the body being the character and the mind the interface. Rupert states that, because awareness isn't personal, it means that we are all the same awareness. Okay, that could be the case, but it might not be. This is a burden of proof fallacy. It can not be disproved or proven. Advaita and Hinduism did not come to be when we had video games, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, etc. I would love for that to be the case (our shared being), but following similar logic, there is no evidence to suggest this isn't some sort of futuristic video game. If that were the case, our Awareness isn't personal to our body/minds, but it IS personal to the Awareness that is playing the game. Therefore, it could be 7 billion different, 4th dimensional awarenesses, playing a game of limitation.
We have video records of the past; even if they are watched in the 'Now' it is still an evident proof of the past.
The past then was the now for those people who actually lived then. So they still experienced only the now
When you record it ,it was in the now.You watch it now and when you will look at it in 20 y it will be now
But you watch it in the now. You'll always watch it in the now. Never in the past.
Not even close-watch Ruperts old videos about the concept of time and you will start to understand what you apparently miss now...