Are There Stages of Realization? - Rupert Spira 

6:30 "Two essential feelings that define the separate self. The fear of death and the sense of lack. All the imaginary separate self's activities are designed to alle(viate) fear and fulfill sense of lack" : Beautifully said.

The three stages of realization that are mentioned in the above video are: Stage:1--The realization that you are pure awareness. Stage:2-The recognition that the nature of the awareness is infinite both in time and space. Stage:3-The endless process to manage to live all the realms of your life in accordance with the discoveries of stage 1(one) and 2(two).

There is only ONE "stage" of REALization; I am Pure Awareness / Being aware of being aware 💗 And yes, thank you Rupert echoing that timeless wisdom, that it doesn't take 20 years to REALize it 🎉 💗

To see your thoughts as just thoughts is to be free of them. (Some are are stickier than others)

This video contains the whole teaching in a nutshell. Basically, these eight minutes are all one needs to hear about awakening!

I loved the part when he explained that the fear of death and the sense of lack are the basic attributes of the seperate self , it summarizes the humman suffering clearly💫👌

If i'm honest, I should say that im getting more aware how unaware I am most of the time...

He’s a visionary and has mastered the art of life, may we all learn from him

Wow, peace radiates from this person and the very manner that he speaks

Awakening, loosening the tight bonds with the body and senses is both the most wonderful experience we can have and also the most resisted (try telling a family member)......wonderful, so fortunate to be in this time. Thank you Rupert.

I wish there was some way that I could express the depth of my gratitude for helping to guide me to my remembering of my true nature. Sincere, kind, thanks for sharing your insights with the world.

This vid is so beautifully done - in every way. Heaven, itself, is in what is being shared here thru Rupert - or, at a minimum, release from all suffering is offered. Yet even the lovely floral bouquet being out of focus in the background - putting Rupert in sharp focus - says something relevant. Got no words for it - beyond sharing gratitude ~♥~

Great teacher! So beautifully and lovely explained, thank you!

Perhaps we dont need 20 years to understand it, but it takes 20 years of learning to teach it ❤

Thank you for sharing the thoughtful (wrong word) presence of his wisdom and gracious being with us. His speaking is better than a warm bubble bath or a nap on a rainy day ~

What I love about Rupert is how straight to the point he is. No BS. No beating around the bush. No special rituals. He makes it simple because it is simple.

Thank You for the last two minutes! 👏🙌💗

What a beautiful video. Thank you. Rupert is incredibly special

Thank you Rupert!!!!! ❤ So good! So beautiful! Thank you!! ☀️

I am so grateful that I was able to hear it. Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻

After the recognition of our essencial being; it cannot be something more interesting than this!!! Incredible! Thank u Rupert :)))

What tremendous beauty this just awoke a little bit in me

Thank you for eloquently parking the idea of enlightenment as a final and finite stage.

I was always this ! How did I forget ! I am the consciousness in this body vessel.

Beautifully expressed. Thank you rupert.. 🙏🏼

When did we decide happiness was our right? The grace of being embodied I find beyond words. I think it's Gibrabran who said when a friend allows you to weep together we are friends. I used to belong to the boo ha club. One tale teller would be reviting. Eventually we wept so hard we began to laugh....I also laughed as a child when I was beaten as a child. Pain leads to transformation when love and connection are present.

Things are supposed to be the way they are, yet so complex, yet so simple. I've been listening to Rupert for quite some time and must say what a tender master he is, yet by master we can only call ourselves individually.

This filled me with gratitude. Thank you🙏🏽🤍

Its fun.Brings so much peace and Joy.Don't want it to end.

Thank you, I finally get it

it's wonderful to hear those things you suspect.... so well articulated.

There are several separate stages to Enlightenment/ Self Realization. Read through the Dr. David R. Hawkins material (about 10 books). Start with "Power v. Force". Best to read them in the order written. He delineates the many different levels of consciousness, explains what you experience on each level, and how to get there. In over 50 years of study (and practice) on the subject of consciousness elevation, this is absolutely the best material. Best of luck.

Perfect. Just what I needed to know at this stage. Jed McKenna said "further" but I wasn't sure what that meant. Endless makes perfect sense. Thank you. ✌🙂

Thanks for including so much science!

This is such clear teaching.... Buddist teaching. Thank you. The teacher arrives when the pupil is ready🙏🙏

Beautiful!

Thank you so much for this beautiful video.I would have been happy if you could tell us in more detail on how to live this understanding.

Beautiful! 🙏

Brilliant explanation.The best of everything I've hear on youtube on enlightenment.No fancy words,stories,BS,guru dressing,etc.Thank you.

Very well articulated...I was looking for such a description

That's so beautifully expressed!

Wonderful to listen to him

Going to see Rupert at the garrison institute next week, want to understand how to live with these realizations in this lifetime!! Also took me 20 plus years of experiential knowledge..🙏🏼 its all cool!

Thanks Rupert!

one of the greatest master rupert always makes it so easy...

Thank you Mr. Spira. My mind says *I LIKE THAT.*

The end of this video was absolutely beautiful ❤

Love to the one and only .... peace and light forever... 🌱

That ‘s where I am like he explained in head and behind eyes so funny . I was wondering if others feel this way too 😂😂

GREAT ! THANK YOU RUPERT !

The thought my seperate self had when watching this video was "wow!".

So beautiful ! I closed my eyes and I noticed it was dark ! Who knew ? :)

No words. Okay, two words....thank you🌟

That was beautiful

There it is, all of you spiritual seekers out there, the final word, now go and get realized.

Thank you💚

Beautiful 🙏

Wow this was amazing. Awesome

The truth of transcendental awareness seems to be an act of faith. I've listened to at least a hundred hours of Rupert over the last couple of months. There is an act of faith similar to that required by a devotional religion that awareness can answer any deficit. I'm struggling with it....

what he states at 641 is totally backwards to TV !! Media bombards you with nonstop images of FEAR via "news" and LACK thru commercials. throw away the TV folks...its bad for your awakening.

thank you rupert

Thank you for your short talk above. I was very interested to hear about your realisation and I am impressed by the way you thoughtfully choose your words of explanation. One question did immediately came to me and I would appreciate your thoughts on the following: if "I" am that which is aware, does "that which is aware" and the awareness continue after what is commonly known as death? 🙏

Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Padmasambhava says: Oh, once you have calmed the compulsive thoughts in your mind right where they are, and the mind is unmodified, isn't there a motionless stability? Oh, this is called quiescence, but it is not the nature of the mind. Now, steadily observe the very nature of your own mind that is being still. Is there a resplendent emptiness that is nothing, that is unestablished in the nature of any substance, shape, or color? That is called the empty essence. Isn't there a luster of that emptiness that is unceasing, clear, immaculate, soothing, and luminous, as it were? That is called the luminous nature. Its essential nature is the indivisibility of sheer emptiness, not established as anything, and its unceasing, vivid luster-such awareness is resplendent and brilliant as it were. This present, unmoving consciousness, which cannot be directly expressed in words, is given the name awareness. That which thinks is this alone, so it is given the name mind. It is this that is mindful of all kinds of things, so it is given the name mindfulness. While it is not seen, it is a special seeing that is clear, steady, unmediated, and steadfast, so it is given the name insight. It is that that makes distinctions among all specific phenomena, like separating the layers of a mushroom, so it is given the name discerning wisdom. All terms such as the sugatagarbha, the sole the absolute nature, primordial wisdom, the middle way, ultimate truth, Mahamudra, Atiyoga, and emptiness are names of this alone." from page 120. "A Spacious Path to Freedom ", by Karma Chagme.

Beautiful

You know people are bullshiting themselves when they say they are not afraid of death. Everyone fears death. That's what keeps us alive.

This experience of Life consists of our presence in Eternal Awareness, all the while enwrapped in infinite energy. We literally live in Tao...

"It's an Art of Life" 🙏

Wonderful crystal clear still a mistery

That 's remarkable.

Gracias ☺ 😊 💖

Thank you

Listen over and overr again, you wil , find out the absolute truth ❤❤❤

I am pure awareness. Okay I get that. Without awareness, I wouldn't be much of anything. But I haven't seen any reasonable explanation that the nature of my awareness is infinite both in time and space. That seems like pure conjecture to me. There is no birth and death? How do you know my awareness is not a seed that starts and ends with my physical existence? Or even if it was universal, how do I know it didn't start at some point and end at some point? Or what it's nature is--perhaps it's just a spark, nothing more. Just because I can't see and experience birth or death, or yesterday, or over there which is not here, doesn't mean it doesn't exist! Can anybody please show me how we can conclude that our awareness is infinite???

Beautiful

I don’t believe that the third stage has no end. Nisargadatta discribed this stage as love trying to find expression. Initially frustrated, ultimately victorious.

Silence ♡ Presence ॐ Peace

If in order to know a finite world, awareness must limit itself into the separate self, how can we be sure that there is no limit of awareness? A limit which, with our limited mind, we cannot know?

A lot of people saying, so beautiful, so clear and so on. I doubt most people understand it. It took him 20 years. I certainly don’t understand it.

The 2nd experiencial discovery is a bliss and very liberating. Pure joy and love

Most succinct!

It takes what it takes and a simple phrase is only going to give you the cognition, when that simple phrase by the grace of god or life is ready to be truly heard, or penetrates the self, bingo cognition of something that awareness doesn't even need to hear, how superbly insane.

"I am aware" is a thought. When there is no thought you don't know that you are aware.

...sitting 'in' awareness, abiding without need or goal, one will eventually experience LIFE itself streaming you as all, into existence. Very, very subtle, always present but hidden by the noise of the 'self'...no big thing, just being the experience of being human. De Oppresso Liber

This seems to me another way of saying 'I am the universe experiencing itself'

The knowing that I am aware is limitation. There is no freedom in knowledge. Freedom starts where all knowledge ends, even the knowledge of "I am aware".

What am I? Who am I? I am the presence of awareness. What is the nature of this awareness? It at first seems the I lives in the body. But more investigation of this finds that the I that is aware is not confined to the body senses. The discovery is an experiential discovery. 'I’ am complete, Full, no sense of lack. Not located in time. Was not born will not die. Provides a new basis for which to perceive and view from. That which is aware has no limits. How now to live with this new found understanding, daily with others. This can take time to learn this ‘art of life’.

I’ve read your comments. I am aware of where you are at in this moment. Wishing you a good day!

The significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.

Namaste 🙏

A beautiful video from a very wise man. There is however two errors, and that is firstly; that there are no numerical stages of realization. Realization and enlightenment is fathomless and as deep as the space of the universe. Secondly, there is a distinction between awareness and consciousness as with awareness there is always a distance towards the sensed object. Space between taste, sound, touch, visual and cognition. Consciousness however, has no distance, and thus is forever present and impersonal. In other words, awareness is an extension of consciousness, but not consciousness itself. Of all the teachers I have read and listened to, there is only Barry Long who has been capable of penetrating the deepest level of consciousness which is truly worth listening to if you are searching for the truest truth.

Still waiting to experientially discover that what I am is without limits. I ask myself of what will I be aware when I am dead and the answer seems to be nothing. Awareness seems to be very limited, I am not aware of anybody else's thoughts only my own. I'm not aware of what's happening in my friend's house right now. The list of things of which I have no awareness is huge so it definitely appears that my awareness is limited. So rationally I cannot say that awareness is without limits. Like I said I'm still waiting for some kind of experience that shows me that I'm mistaken.

At about 5.15 this just breaks down in terms of coherence. You don't need to take this extra step into 'non objective' 'limitless' 'knowing ' but maybe - we automatically do in the absense of 'God'. Who is the knower ? Confusing awareness which has its roots in our ancestry with a 'panpsychic' kind of consciousness is projection, and ultimately understandable in human terms, but I think it bypasses some hard existential aspects to the reality we are inextricably enmeshed in.

He is such a brilliant teacher I am so grateful for his teaching but who was Rupert Spira,s teacher are there any videos of his teaching.

What is the music 0.16 seconds into the clip?

Ruperts philosophy is the same as western mindfulness: stripping a whole philosophy to fit the western mind. The whole Buddhist and Vedanta systems are vast and intricate, and with powerful reasons. Ruperts philosophy is only a small part of the whole story, that story has been created by swamis and yogis to cultivate our minds. If you are done with Rupert, please turn your attention towards the full story, in this case Vedanta philosophy

A wonderful experience to be guided toward awareness. But all he can do is entice.

good explanations. There is no self, only experience and the unconditioned, but there is a self as far as unawakened beings in dream-thinking are concerned, and the discovery awaits everybody. The true Nature has always been here, it just needs remembering - in Buddhism the first realisation is called stream entry, and lists three of ten fetters which are shed with that revelatory realisation. Thereafter, the stages of progress described by Rupert also develop, as we see further and develop the causes of further realisations, and awakening. yes there are stages of awakening, because the causes have to be assembled, for the last 'penny to drop'. An apple tree may have five red apples all looking ripe on the tree, but we cannot predict which apple will fall before the other, nor when it will fall. IN the same way, we cannot predict when the causes of awakening will have accumulated, but hard work, self honesty, and deep introspection onto the influence of the senses, our views, the conditioned nature of our views and reactions, emotions, their influence, and so on, to see how all of those processes are not self, and that only emptiness, luminous awareness is present constantly, the rest, is all coming and going.

Please give him a ......... noble prize.......

Just when you think you have realized the empty nature of awareness, grasping lingers on. You may think, "Ah, this is the nature of the mind now I've got it." But it is precisely at this point that you lose it, because this is when conceptual grasping comes in and derails you again. In this way, the mind is carried away and distracted. Until now, because of grasping, we have regarded that which is not the mind as being the mind. We have regarded that which is not consciousness as being consciousness. Space is primordially unestablished in reality, so it's impossible for it to have any color. Likewise, the mind is beyond the past, present, and future. It is also beyond all kinds of objectification. If it were to have even a slight basis in reality and the Omniscient One could not see it, that would contradict the entire meaning of "Omniscient One." Therefore, if it had any existence at all, the Omniscient One would see it. Until now, we have been involved in rejecting and accepting due to grasping onto our emotions, joys, suffering, and delusion. Why do we fall into these states when none of them has any true existence? Remember the reality of last night's dream appearances. All of these are unestablished. None of them has objective existence. However, don't ignore actions and their consequences. from page 119. "A Spacious Path to Freedom " by Karma Chagme