Thanks so much for this brilliant talk, Alanji. Can't we all understand the struggle the man Rupert is speaking with who feels that this peace is not available for him? Rupert so patiently brings him over and over again to the basis of all experience that is untouched by thought. So helpful for all of us to hear these truths repeatedly pointed out so clearly.
Alan, maybe you will find amusing to know, that I listen to your videos of Rupert talks and conversations generally at least once a day, sometimes 2 or 3 or even more. I choose a random one and hit play It has been for a long time some of my preferred entertainment 😂 and some of the videos you post, I listened to it maybe 5 times, and I already know the next word Rupert is going to say hahaha I also like the videos from Ruperts channel, but I love your work of condensing them into a single video, and taking different conversations with the same theme and lining them up in the video. And the music is a great topping of it all! A great curation for this great teacher Thank you for all this work you do!
I feel this questioner’s pain, his frustration at hearing that his nature is peace when his insides are in such turmoil. How do we teach someone that to hear a noise is to hear the silence from which it emerges? To hear the silence in the noise and the noise in the silence is indeed tricky. Rupert so patiently invites him to recognize the stillness between his agitated thoughts-a stillness that he cannot experience because the noise in his mind is so loud. May he one day find that which he never lost. 🙏
The intensity of this man's difficulty and conflict prompted Rupert to really succinctly explain and show us where we too unwittingly may be stuck... even if we aren't as stuck, many of us experience that man's state to some degree at one point or another... the thoroughness of Rupert's explanations covered sooo much.... it made me see that I still have what this man has even though it's not nearly as pronounced after 20 years of work. What blows me away is how brilliant Rupert is at addressing every person so intimately and with such clarity and precision. And he is improving constantly.
Loved this talk so much! I am very grateful for the man that brought all of those questions that almost every human has, and the ability of Rupert to answer them. What a beautiful channel to explore more of Rupert's approach, thanks Alan ❤
There is soccer commentary behind this recording Alan. It’s in the background. Despite this I feel this is one of the most moving powerful clips you have sourced for us. Thank you 🙏
I’m glad someone else hears it too. I thought maybe it was just me. Yes it’s faint but quite disruptive considering the peacefulness of the recording. I wonder how to get rid of it. I hope you might repost it without the background radio as it is distracting.
Like sitting at the bottom of the ocean, watching the waves above crashing and thrashing about, or not❣️☮️ I’m not interested in the waves… Something like that he said ❤️🔥 So beautiful, so silent! Thank you ❣️❣️❣️
This is amazing, thank you! I find Candice Rinpoche's advice to 'stop thinking for a moment and see what remains', is also very helpful. Of course, thought comes straight back but it's then easier to see them as just part of the flow. As you've uploaded before, she says to do this for 'short moments' during the day - which helps. Same as Eckhart Tolle saying 'go deeply into the now' I suppose. He also says just 'little moments' can help at first. 💞
Short moments means that the recognition is not forced or held because it's what we are. Rupert is pointing to the same truth when he says that we can't find knowing, we can only be it. 🙏💕
Wow that was a banger one! Rupert is just amazing, I am so glad that he exists in this world And this other guy that expresses all his objections And you Alan to find these recordings and make them available!
Absolutely beautiful to have an example of a very real conversation; this gives a powerful insight to the challenges present for those who feel “so far away” from our inherent peaceful nature. I’d just ask if there could be less ad breaks haha, I think there were more than 5 which seems quite excessive for a 25 min video 😅❤
Self Enquiry requires us to look at the snake. The snake is not the rope but it bears the reflected quality of the rope.Likewise, The Ego bears the reflected quality of awareness ( awareness is better described by Nisargadatta as the light prior to consciousness to distinguish reflected awareness and the SELF) and so looking at awareness as Rupert describes is better described as looking at the ego as a first necessary step to a deeper investigation into its true nature. The extra ingredient required is Bakhti and Karma Yoga that ensures this “looking”at awareness as Rupert describes will lead to the SELF. Another route is to be in the presence of an enlightened master
Rupert always distributes precious words, if you keep them inside your vault of understanding one day you will also have a treasure to offer your brothers in existence. Thank you Alan for sharing these precious words.
Peace and happiness is always there but to recognize it, mind needs to be groomed which is called Sadhana. Meditation and enquiry. Quiet and pure mind is prerequisites for this direct understanding.
Would it be possible to upload a version without the sports commentary in the background? We all who can hear it would appreciate it. I hear you saying that you can’t hear it so I imagine it might require assistance from another and revisiting the source of the recording. Again, much appreciation for all you do. 🙏🏾
I have it as an MP3. I can send it to you but I would need your email address. Find me on Facebook to private message 😊 It seems that listening on earphones is the problem but I'm lost for why it can be heard at all. The talk is from a retreat and I use Audacity to edit. I hate football so it hasn't come from me! 😊
I'm a little surprised at the lack of awareness betrayed in this response to the man who can't find peace. Rupert often speaks of needing both the advaita approach (inquiry) and the tantric approach to difficult thoughts or emotions. Clearly this guy is very resistant to the inquiry. So if the "understanding" is that no effort is required in being, why the intense effort to make him see in a way he doesn't want to see? I would suggest that for some reason it feels very unsafe for him and so this kind of approach will only increase the resistance. In my humble experience, had there been some sensitivity to this resistance, a different way in could have been found. We are graced with thought, feeling and perceiving. So if one way is blocked, take another road. Truth without tenderness is nothing. He could have acknowledged rather than argued against the resistance. It has clearly served a purpose to this man. Survival. It's a trauma response. And so by Rupert's own admission, he will have a fight on his hands (the irony being that Rupert did indeed have a fight on his hands). A simple question like "where do you feel that in the body?" would have gone the way he was already facing rather than trying to lead him somewhere he doesn't want to go. He already said there is just phenomenological experience so we know that road is open, we know he can walk that way. Why take the path of resistance? It actually takes a great deal of courage to stand up and say you don't get it or it doesn't work for you and not just say the expected answers when subjected to the stock inquiry. I feel for him.
I appreciate I may be holding Rupert to an impossible standard here. But as Rupert says, the only absolutely true or radical teaching is silence. Everything else is a compassionate concession to the finite mind. I just felt this lacked both compassion and concession. Maybe he was tired. I get a lot from his teachings. But I'm reminded here he is just another human like me, and doesn't always get it perfect. And the greatest gift a teacher can give us is this, lest we become confused about where the truth lies.
And I recognise it's easy for me to sit here and pick holes. But this one stood out from me and actually was more informative in a way. It pointed me back to my own wisdom, which is what every great teacher does after all.
From the description of another Rupert video... "In the case of fearful thoughts and feelings, turn towards them and embrace them with tenderness and affection, like you would attend to a frightened child."
When Rupert says pause your thoughts doesn’t it mean to go progressive approach to still mind first? What if I can’t pause my thoughts to look back on “I”?
The direct path is to have the introduction to awareness first and then to stabilise as that through repeatedly "going to" awareness. Pausing thought is one of the pathways to acknowledging awareness. In any situation, ask yourself "what knows this" and really look. Look around your room and don't describe or comment on it and see what remains as your experience.
@@kylegood2622 What opened freedom for "me" recently was the realisation that everything is Being-ness/Oneness. That means there's NO separate/individual doer, for even the mind and body is an appearance of the One. This means that if you remain as conscious witness while you are doing, then all that "you" appear to be DOING, is God that is actually doing it through you. (If that makes sense LOL).
