Feeling Bored is An Opening to Awaken

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In this video clip, Rupert discusses two sources for our desires and activities when feeling bored or the sense of boredom arises.
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@OssieRichards 9 лет назад

This guy was sitting so still, I thought this was a picture of him with audio.

@TrevorFosterTheFosterDojo 7 лет назад

ME TOO HAHA

@pantelischristodoulou3415 6 лет назад

So do i.I saw his eye brows moving though....

@lenagallager3576 5 лет назад

It's because he listens so well!! He actually gives the questioner all his attention.

@passionbonsai88 4 года назад

😂😂

@connersyoutube3041 4 года назад

So did I. Lol!

@davidc.2878 Год назад

I can tell I have a long way to go because people’s long winded questions drive me fucking nuts but Spira just patiently listens. Most “gurus” interrupt when they have the gist of it-not him.

@squadkillersa7880 Месяц назад

exactly

@David-fp3qg Год назад

I think we are so use to doing we don't even know we are bored...actually seeing and feeling bored may be a breakthrough

@rajfreestylo2735 6 лет назад

When someone REALLY wants to know his/her true nature, consciousness starts to reveal itself.There may be some doubts or misunderstanding in the beginning but if YOU really want it..then it will be revealed.

@seanguzy9601 Год назад

That is what I tell people about REALLY WANTING TO KNOW THE TRUTH. IF YOU REALLY WANT IT THEN IT WILL BE REVEALED.

@ronnie9379 Год назад

How do you want it and why should you want it?

@terefefeyssa877 11 месяцев назад

@@ronnie9379 : I didn't understand your comment at all. I don't know how it gave you sense.

@claudelebel49 5 месяцев назад

@@ronnie9379if wanting it does not appear in your consciousness, there is nothing you can do. There is no should. If it is meant to come to you it will and if not it wont. Meanwhile enjoy life, and if you are not enjoying, the pain and suffering will cause you to look more deeply.

@johnstanton8499 Год назад

Age has an impact on boredom , a childs perception of time is very different from an adults also an elderly persons

@beyethedoor 9 лет назад

"The only thing the ego cannot stand is the clear light of awareness." I am conscious after listening to your videos for seven days, every day, that there have been some real shifts in perception and clear seeing as well. Thank you.

@PayMe888 2 года назад

The father and I are one.

@dark_sunset Год назад

@@PayMe888 what does this even mean lol

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Год назад

@@dark_sunset lol. It’s non dual rhetoric. Non dualists say all kinds of things thinking we know what we’re saying so as to sound good, important and or otherwise “knowing” what we’re saying. I’d say very few of us actually know wtf we are even saying. one thing I’ve learned is, unless I have actual experience with something, I keep my mouth shut. Ego wants to look good and sound good even if it doesn’t have a clue. It can even make me think I really know what I’m talking about when the truth is, I don’t. Ego plays pretend and make believe very well, as in, it makes stuff up, and I believe it, but beliefs are not true. 😂😂 The truth can be believed, but beliefs are not the truth Homer Simpson voice: stupid ego

@danielreed823 Год назад

You are experiencing the stated above, its your ego that thinks otherwise.

@venusspacey9685 Год назад

@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 I read what he said and instantly understood it. When ignorant to something then yea, one would sound like a egotistical know it all genius.

@MeRetroGamer Год назад

Oftentimes if you wait those 5 minutes in meditation and silence when those impulses arise, they fall and you end up doing something completely different, or doing nothing at all, and it happens just naturally. It's important to let things be as they are, to fully integrate and be inclusive about all of experience and to release. Those are the key practices: - let it be - recognize and integrate it - release it as the next thing comes into its place.

@ronjamieson6837 6 лет назад

Rupert reflects and reveals the Infinite Wisdom inherent in all of us.

@pantherenebuleuse Год назад

It just happens to me Rupert, after years and tears studying advaita Vedanta through you - what a good lesson for me

@LisaPatrikeevna-mx7lv 4 года назад

Thank you so much for that video. I didn't hear of you before so it's my first meeting of you. I write it because I finally feel relief. I was in a state of strong boredom and it's even worser than others feelings. You feel dead inside nothing is bringing joy to you everything seems fake and with lack of sense.And mind convince me that this is normal state and I believed him.but you said just sit for 5 minutes and observe it before you do anything.and it is gone. I feel like I am became alive. I am not searching for any meaning because I don't need to. Everything is so alive and joyful so am I. Thank you

@sandraekhoff8937 Год назад

Amazing isn't

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Год назад

That’s where I’ve been for 9 years since my original awakening from alcoholism and addiction. I’ve been sober 9 years now and following non dual teachings like Rupert, Nisagardatta, Ramana Maharishi, Ram Dass, Gary Weber etc that whole time. I have a dedicated meditation practice as well and use 12 step to stay sober. But….especially the last 2 years, I have no interest in anything. I’ve found all the usual suspects empty. Ie gambling, alcohol, drugs, (except psychedelics) chasing money, materialism, consumerism, etc. etc. All of them empty. Not interested in watching movies, certainly not watching television and I dropped the news nine years ago to because that shit is poison the mind. It doesn’t seem like there’s anything else to do here on earth but get enlightened. I mean, what else is there to do? Nature is beautiful but I really have no desire to even leave my house anymore. People are, well, wonderful enough but I prefer to steer clear of people because people are also shit. Animals are wonderful but pets require a lot of attention etc. I’ve lost hope of getting enlightened too. At this point in my journey I just feel like life is hard, it’s full of suffering in all directions, it’s painful, pointless and meaningless. No one will even know I existed days or weeks after my death so what’s the point of even trying. I see no point in any of this and as Adyashanti said once: Maybe there is no point to life other than life just being life. We give absolutely everything all the meaning that it has, or doesn’t, as the case may be, and I am struggling to find any meaning to any of this knowing that any meaning I do give it isn’t necessarily true. Ugh 😣 I’m glad you got some relief. That’s what we’re all looking for. 😢

@DaGolfViking Год назад

@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Wow, you have a lot going on. I hope you've been able to find some answers or find what you've been searching for.

@Da_Xman Год назад

@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496"It doesn't seem like there's anything else to do here on Planet Earth but get enlightened." VERY WELL SAID...!!! Although, the situation you've described is obviously very difficult, it's actually part of the Self Realization "process". And, typically, that "process" isn't a thing of overnight duration, and intellect/ego despises waiting for anything. The Buddha talked about suffering and relief from it for a reason. Intellect/ego prefers things to be as it wishes, rather than as they are; there's nothing that intellect/ego doesn't become disturbed by and want to make "better"; intellect/ego is never happy. It can experience the temporary relief of distraction with excitement and thrills for a bit - maybe - but never happiness. When things are not as intellect/ego prefers (i.e., the distractions of sensations, thrills and excitement), there is boredom, dissatisfaction and discontent. "The darkest hour is just before the dawn"; unfortunately, sometimes that hour appears to be considerably long. Constantly persist with meditation and listening to what Rupert Spira talks about (this particular video is a great fundamental reference point). Here's something I could relate to that helped me. In reference to Self Realization, Ramana Maharshi once said that when your head is in the tiger's mouth, all that can be done is hang onto its tail. I'm not so sure that I'm "Awakened", "Enlightened" or "Self Realized", but I'm very sure that I'm happy (if that means anything at all).

@tarunnarang9701 Месяц назад

Watching this while bored

@robinaguenkel7534 Год назад

This is a great teaching to face the boredem.thank you Rupert 👍🇩🇪.

@mohamedladhaladha7997 6 лет назад

If done in the right spirit,work is worship & duty is god.

@gerardgrimardia3274 5 лет назад

11:20: = same thing with fear,anxiety,sense of lack...Ex: the anxiety;just pause,feel the discomfort of anxiety;there will be a little bit of rebellion inside,because the anxiety is used of being relieved through the acquisition of objects ,activities or states;so,we have to be courageous;not strong but courageous face to the discomfort of this anxiety,let it come & then,watch the movie

@AshishKaloliya 5 лет назад

Only Rupert can teach this simply. Thank you so much!

@pdvidz2266 5 лет назад

You're all already awakened you've just forgotten.

@CalamarMagic Год назад

When you believe yourself to be an ego entity, it’s not that you have forgotten, you simply don’t know that you are not that entity.

@MrSvarun77 8 лет назад

This speaks to me on so many levels, great stuff.Thanks.

@philipkolyos8230 Год назад

Boredom makes me severly anxious or depressed......im always trying fill the void until i get burnout then into depression

@gerardgrimardia3274 5 лет назад

9:10: = before watching the movie (or going to the fridge ) because of boredom,take 5 mn & face the discomfort that is prompting the desire to watch the movie,read the book,etc.,&,having faced it,allow,invite the feeling to come fully up into the light of consciousness ,& then,let it relax & expand into the space of awareness,and then,turn the movie on (or go to the fridge,etc.)

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Год назад

What’s amazing is, the decision to do anything happens 7-10 seconds before we do it. Free will is an illusion. Rupert talks about this too and it’s documented by science using an MRI. They were able to accurately determine the choices that the person was going to make before they made them. Amazing stuff

@luis55ful 3 года назад

Yes. Still outside reflex the peace he lives inside.

@dianele608 Год назад

I really want to share my happiness with someone! So well put! I never thought of it that way that's what I'm trying to do. It's suprising the number of people who seem to do the opposite.

@Da_Xman Год назад

Hi Diane! You and I recognized the same thing in Rupert Spira's words! It seems like I want to share my happiness but, apparently, very few seem to be able to do that because they're so embroiled in dissatisfaction and discontent (fear, resentment, bitterness, hatred and conflict), which is the complete nature of intellect/ego. That must be all they have to share (because that's must be all they have!).

@deannjohnson9004 4 месяца назад

@@Da_Xman I don't believe that it's all they have... mostly, I think that negativity is the first thing that people share because it's more socially acceptable to complain than it is to praise (etc). 🧐

@Da_Xman 4 месяца назад

@@deannjohnson9004 ✨👋🤓✨Hey Dean! "More 'socially acceptable' to complain than it is to praise (etc.)"...??? Hmmmm... You could be right about that, but my experience has always been that people mean what they're saying when they're bitching and whining; they're complaining because they or someone else is hurting. I don't recall ever seeing anyone sharing pain just to be social. Why would a happy person complain about anything if they have happiness to share? It makes no sense that anyone would do otherwise; complaining only makes things worse. In my world, people who complain do so because their pain is their reality; they're not doing it just to be social at all. Your point is well taken and it could very well be right, but I've never come across anything like that. In steel mills, shipyards, the navy, working in management in labor positions and in any recreational endeavor, never have I encountered anyone complaining when or because they're happy. Actually, complaining to be social is pretty funny; it would be good material for some kind of stand up routine! You're just puttin' us on...right? ✨😄✨

@benjapeterson6333 10 лет назад

Thank you Rupert!

@gordonj5 10 лет назад

Super helpful - thank you again, Rupert.

@jeara69 6 лет назад

Namaste and thank you!

@meditating-mind 3 года назад

So grateful to have some like rupert breakdown difficult questions and answer it in such a simple, experiential way! God bless you🙏

@corinnewetzel9490 Год назад

So clear & inspiring words; thank you Rupert for your guidance💐

@s.r.howell1297 5 месяцев назад

That was exactly the teaching I needed. For now.

@bethtucker5275 5 лет назад

This is so practical. I love it. Thank you

@eddycurb8164 2 года назад

Best thing in the struggle against boredom is walking meditation(kinhin) + music. Trust me. It's the best thing i've found in this world. Tell about it everyone.

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Год назад

😂😂😂

@Wanderer1 2 дня назад

😂

@saileelas1817 Год назад

Excellent help at the right time. Thanks

@luisalbelda67 4 года назад

Thank you!

@mv2768 6 лет назад

Beautiful.

@susanenglish3791 Год назад

Beautiful teaching. Core explanation of finding peace.

@dominiqueethervecortina5834 10 лет назад

Excellent, like usuel !

@henrike34 11 месяцев назад

Thank you ❤

@KeerthanaR22 11 месяцев назад

From last few days, I have been going after movies, food, or phone irresistably. Just prayed I know the reason why I do that, what I dont see... then found this video randomly. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@pdvidz2266 5 лет назад

It's kind of hard to explain what enlightenment is but it's basically from what I understand my self to be, awareness, that feeling of you in which thoughts feelings sensations perceptions live in and pass by. It's so simple yet so hard to describe.

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Год назад

What’s to describe? We all have the same awareness. We all know what it is, just that some of us are aware we are aware. To point someone at it I just say “what is before your mind? What is it that is aware of your mind? You are that.” They either understand or they don’t. If they don’t they aren’t meant too I figure. The Bhagavad Gita noted that it’s immoral to unsettle someone’s mind who isn’t ready so I watch for that too using intuition to tell me whether to share about it or not. 😊

@Da_Xman Год назад

There's loads and loads of confusion regarding the nature of "Awakening", "Enlightenment" and "Self Realization" - what those are, any differences between them, how it's "done" and when it occurs. However, the only approach to any of that is to want Absolute Truth even more than the breath of Life while continuing doing what you typically do and be who you believe yourself to be. "What you are seeking is causing you to seek." (Cheri Huber) Ramana Maharshi also said that Atman ("individualized" Brahman) is guiding us to itself by using our individual conditioning to do so. It's all a matter of confidence in whatever "Highest Power" there is (whether intellect/ego is informed about it in any kind of detail or not).

@harrybellingham98 4 года назад

sounds like me and meditation

@silvanabadawi2059 2 года назад

Thank you🤍🤍🤍

@evadekool4246 8 месяцев назад

great message!

@gracesanity6314 11 месяцев назад

Spontaneity helps with the belief of boredom. It's a thought and judgement of this now,.moment. It should be ...different. l am a very restless person. But it's my addiction to externals, people, fomo. As l age (thankfully) l see it.

@Doopliss77 Год назад

Insightful 👍

@lynnebailey6528 Год назад

Oooo this was sooo good.

@scotthiddleston8246 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, Rupert! You answered my question. I came here seeking whether or not I should continue to learn to play Bass, and if so, why. Answered perfectly at 7:55.

@gerardgrimardia3274 5 лет назад

13:00: = we think,feel & live the teaching

@Nora-et6et Год назад

This is a diamond of a lecture

@orangetulip1261 Год назад

Isn't it just! ❤

@Da_Xman Год назад

It's the bottom line!

@faizahanif6755 2 года назад

Thanks a lot for your valuable guidance

@cristinaguine5235 Год назад

The best!

@gerardgrimardia3274 5 лет назад

5:50: = R S touches his chest,"the separate self that is at the heart (of that feeling)"

@jessd9459 Год назад

Fascinating. This is really making me reconsider ADD and trouble focusing, procrastinating, etc. What if it all stems from avoidance of emotions?

@bethanienaylor Год назад

Good stuff!

@parulchoprabuttan5442 Год назад

You're right, Jess. Dr Gabor Matè beautifully explains how avoiding difficult situations in childhood by tuning out, becomes a coping mechanism and then a diagnosis of ADD in adulthood.

@Natallou55 4 месяца назад

Its so weird sometimes I feel like "Am I going completely mad?" "Is all of this just a trick?" "What if I never get there and missed out on actually doing things that make me happy because I was trying to challenge giving into desires." I mean some of these desires are not so bad on the surface, for example, go out to try to meet new people and make new friends, but because I know it comes from a sense of lack I refuse to do it and instead I look inward. In the moments of doubt though I feel like I'm wasting so much time and I'm getting more depressed, but then other times I feel bloody fantastic for no reason. I feel like I'm in a washing machine.

@antonyliberopoulos933 5 лет назад

Thank you.

@flatdaddy462 11 месяцев назад

I had time on my hands at work and feeling bored and decided to see a video and this one was "recommended." How the Youniverse operates in our favor. 😄

@gracesanity6314 11 месяцев назад

Its also accepting the balance of human and Spirt. Balance in all.

@DietrichLasa 9 лет назад

Beautiful. One could call this a 'method,' the most shunned word in the world of advaita. Pausing, facing whatever is perceived could be called 'the recipe.' 'Pausing' is another word for 'not doing anything.' Therefore, the words 'method' and 'recipe' are inadequate as they usually imply some doing such as favoring, rejecting, changing, achieving, avoiding.

@sheilakirwan6900 7 лет назад

Dietrich Lasa one of the reasons that I like Rupert is that I feel he does use methods and conversley why I am not attracted to many Advaita teachings .....the Buddha and Buddhism uses methods of meditation ...with great success ....many have realised the ultimate freedom through buddhist meditation methods ....☺...gratitude to Rupert ...

@sheilakirwan6900 7 лет назад

Dietrich Lasa ..sorry meant Advaita teachers...

@Da_Xman Год назад

@@sheilakirwan6900 Hi Sheila, Ramana Maharshi, Nissargadatta and Siddharameshwar all had their own "methods" and were all "Advaitists" (if there is such a word).

@atuldhruva6741 10 месяцев назад

At one stage in the dilogue Rupert asked to consciously experience the feeling of boredom. But this pulls one deeper in to the boredom. May be I am wrong. With me I found that stepping back inside to view to observe the boredom at some distance brings actually my being to surface on the top. This makes me separate from the boredom where initially my being was one with boredom. This also breaks my being free from slevary.

@psychologicalsuccess3476 3 года назад

Don't do things simply to cure your sense of boredom, that is seeking happiness externally not feeling at peace already

@yungblade7 2 года назад

Difficult but true

@LoveLeigh313 4 месяца назад

I read and watch movies because I always have a-ha moments and grow spirituality 🤷🏻‍♀️

@hgracern 8 лет назад

Lovely, thanks. ...if there is no doer/chooser, who decides to face discomfort?

@Besotted85 Год назад

Mindfullness, or mediation... Thanks!

@RodCornholio Год назад

I've been opening since I was 4 years old.

@TheBhannah 10 лет назад

very helpful thank you

@kaustuvhalder1602 Год назад

I don't understand how can someone without having to constantly remind oneself of the teachings can just make it part of ones nature. When I am reminding myself of what to do when I am anxious, who is doing the remembering- isn't it the separate self?

@MUSICOBLISS 10 лет назад

Beingness

@wouteroosting4687 Год назад

It's funny that sitting "comfortably" in silence can be the finest of cravings as well. Same thing as wanting to watch a movie. Just get away from uncomfortable feelings. The Buddha explains how there are 3 types of feelings we can recognise. Samsara...

@thoughts0utloud 2 года назад

You are a master wizard Rupert. Continually casting levitation spells.

@n.u.t.s8432 Год назад

❤❤❤❤

@JeffreyKader Год назад

That question made me bored

@DecompressArt 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Rupert, so here is my question to you: what is your reasoning for having over 1000 videos in your RU-vid channel? Is it because of the first reason (pure joy), or the second reason (practical response), or the third reason (anxiety, fear, etc.)? Couldn't it also be a mix of these 3 things?

@deannjohnson9004 4 месяца назад

What is your recommendation when the thing that I regularly find myself attempting to avoid is chronic physical pain? I have lived with significant and chronic physical pain for more than 30 years, and though I have experienced many times when I have been able to use the pain to open new layers in my meditations, I struggle mightily in my attempts to manage the pain with regard to my ability to live my life from hour to hour without resorting to distractions way more than I would like. Have you any suggestions?

@minhvo9962 Год назад

@TheParakeet1999 Год назад

What about feeling empty, as if one doesn't exist and there's this eternal silence? This is what I experience due to BPD and I have often avoided it because it's a horrible feeling. Could someone please make a comment on emptiness?

@DeavaG Год назад

As Rupert would say ask “what is it that feels empty in my experience? Trace back to to Essential Essence.” It cannot be empty it is All: bird, tree, galaxy, humanity, cement, car, dog, oceans, airplane, tsunami, etc.

@Da_Xman Год назад

Hey Alex! How many others do you suppose feel the same way? It's simply intellect/ego exibiting the difficulty you describe. It takes time, but persist with meditation and Rupert Spira. I don't recall ever reading or hearing that the "path" to "Awakening", "Enlightenment" or "Self Realization) is supposed to be comfortable and fun.

@perlefisker Год назад

1:32 I would be much more curious to hear the justification for watching a movie or reading a book, as it seems to be these solitary occupation which feed the feeling of doing something forbidden. (Responding to obligations or duties like your job or family care, or even being social calling a friend, is never leading you to feel guilty.)

@TheDAT9 Год назад

I am an active person. I like to be doing something constructive. I f I am not i get bored. To me, boredom is a waste of of my time on this planet.

@Da_Xman Год назад

Being bored is the compulsive motivation for activity, that activity functioning as a distraction to Just Being. Intellect/ego despises "Just Being" and that compulsive >need< for distraction motivates "creativity", "constructiveness" and "productiveness". However, all that still occurs once the compulsive/obsessive >needs< of intellect/ego subside through meditation and learning what "Just Being" actually means and is. But, somehow, I have a hunch you're aware of that and am curious as to the nature of your comment.

@kimberlyherrmann6324 6 месяцев назад

🎯

@camillabartlett9128 11 месяцев назад

Never have a sense of boredom There are choices Lack the separate self It’s like the movie Move move move Stay still to remove the sense of the root Be content with what is

@GrubKiller436 5 месяцев назад

But why do we have to do that?

@lookmagazine2667 Год назад

Does that mean that if I don't feel happy, I shouldn't call a friend and go for dinner?

@donnsmith6482 5 лет назад

Boredom? God gets bored? Spirit came here for the Action? Yep. And for cable tv! Hoo Ahhh.

@pri5748 6 месяцев назад

It's grief

@donnsmith6482 7 лет назад

Rupert: The Awareness needs no "enlightening" or awakening to a true self. It is as it is (well--uh--of course it is...or be's)> It is full--Purna. Contented (santosha). No sadhana necessary--no goal to be reached (for). The whole "game" is for the temporal entity (the avatar) to achieve or not-achieve (why quibble over semantics) the state of enlightenment --i prefer enlightening-- for itself. To become eternal. To turn in the conditioned entity costume, to transform it, into an eternal unconditioned entity costume To play the "i am the Awareness" game at the next level. Bhaktivedanta--or Prabhu something or other--allows that we can reach One state he calls the "Personality of Godhead" which has the many lower aspects raised up to a higher plane (sorta-not-quite purified by Light). In Christian terms we can be "born again" from the flesh into spirit. So that is the game and just like Mario we can keep getting more lives and playing our way thru all the levels until we "win". Then we see a little note that says there is a path to a next level--a faster level--we can play next. In other words the fun of playing is extended. So why hurry straight to the goal? Leave the theatre in the middle of the movie? If we came here to avoid the eternal boredom of resting contentedly in the self why go back to being that eternal couch-potato? The "Path" the "Search" the angst and the whole shebang (?) is for the temporal entity's transformation. Poor little me can Become and enjoy the fruits from the tree-of-eden and become a Big-ol'-Rich-son-of-a-gun. What a (no)thought huh. Or does the Awareness actually "need" some-thing some-body or most importantly Some FUN?....!!.... Play...Imagine...Create...Laugh and Cry. Celebrate as a Zorba the Buddha (Osho). C'mon little non entity, we are a rootin' for ya. Yes!

@rajfreestylo2735 6 лет назад

Hi Rupert.Thanks for the great work you are doing for us.Can you please recommend me some nice readings on Consciousness...some very very complicated ones.

@rajfreestylo2735 6 лет назад

By the way..I have already read..I AM THAT..Mandukya Upanisad..Bhagvat Gita..The Mind Made Prison,

@constipatedbowels3473 5 лет назад

@@rajfreestylo2735 itz not Rupert,dumbass...!!!..

@dakota1014 8 лет назад

What does me working in a retail store bored folding clothes have to do with me feeling like I'm seperate from others ?

@FrogmortonHotchkiss 8 лет назад

Yeah, he should be careful with language. The word 'boredom' can be applied to different things - not just existential restlessness. However, your retail suffering might actually be existential in origin even if this true cause isn't obvious to you. On the other hand, I'm sure if you asked Rupert to fold clothes for eternity, a sensation one might call 'boredom' or 'frustration' would arise, as the body-mind isn't a robot that can perform repetitive tasks on command without experiencing some unpleasant reaction. That mechanism has its own biological & psychological directives that are somewhat in conflict with folding clothes just because your boss told you to. If you were folding clothes to save the life of your child, that might motivate you more strongly. But his answer is appropriate in context. Your example is different from the questioner's. The questioner is talking about that familiar feeling of being at home with no immediately pressing task. There is a sense of empty time that you want to fill with stimulation and activity. It is worth looking into this to learn what is existential anxiety and what is just energy looking for an outlet.

@edmilio 7 лет назад

Dakota Y There could be a feeling of happiness for all the good you do to help the success of the business which in turns pays you money for your success. You also enhance the customer experience. At that level you can get how connected your act of folding clothes connects to others and continuosly expands. On another level the peace that you are as a pure being is not a feeling of boredom. Being bored is just a thought appearing on your seperate self. It is generated by you. You would generate other feelings once you have awareness of your always already connectedness.

@FrogmortonHotchkiss 7 лет назад

Edmilio Nario Seems like a pretty sanguine view of retail work... What if your employer isn't particularly nice to you, but you've no other options?

@claudelebel49 5 лет назад

The feeling of separation is not only in relation to others but to present reality. Boredom is often if not mostly a resistance to life as it is unfolding in this moment. Here is a quote from Anthony deMello which speaks to the same issue: "Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality." This is why you can feel lonely even in the company of others.

@yungblade7 2 года назад

Bruh u could feel zen while folding if u just understand your true nature is bliss not coming from any external situation even folding

@RaviSingh-fv4sh 3 года назад

What is difference between feeling peace and feeling boredom?

@antonkhodak3278 Год назад

Boredom is uncomfortable, something you want to abandon, peace is comfortable, you don't have desire to leave it

@yannhijazi Год назад

@@antonkhodak3278 nice

@TheAmbamatamantrasvideos 11 месяцев назад

feeling boredom is felt by the ego, feeling peace is felt by the innerself. the reality. it is the peace of beingness, awareness, eternity... nothing there, no thing, 💎it is the Absolute. in boredom there is nothing but the ego still expects something, cannot coop ith it. 😪.. and is hurting.

@LucaS-fj2vh 2 года назад

💞🙏🌺

@fuldagermany 10 лет назад

Are we not meant to live and enjoy life? Regardless of what level of conscious awareness we have arrived at, I feel, that we are existent in order to fully live.

@saidas108 10 лет назад

I guess it depends on how you define "fully" living. Most people define it as having as many pleasurable and "fulfilling" experiences as possible. Try this sometime. Sit quietly and try to recall all of the experiences of any sort you've had in your entire life and see how many you can actually recall. Then see how vague those memories are compared to the actual experience. Now quickly think of all of the billions of experiences you've had in total. I think it's rather sobering to realize that you can only recall an infinitesimal number of experiences and those you can are quite vague and distorted. So is that really the goal of life then? Really? If so, I want my money back! :)

@fuldagermany 10 лет назад

saidas108 So, what is really the goal of life then? I was talking with a friend earlier in the day and she and I are going through some very tough circumstances. I mentioned that it seems that diamonds are not really made of coal, so I have read, but that they are formed deeper down in the earth (from what original material I do not know) and that pressure does create those brilliant gems; oysters get sand inside of them that irritates them and they form pearls. I asked, "Could it be that all the difficulties we experience really does have some kind of soul refining purpose?" Are we not here to dance and play and to love? By the way, I remember some things so very strongly and clearly ... the happy and the sad ... the loving and the painful. Some experiences are like smoke and vanish. It was my understanding that we are meant to experience the present: the now. I still have no answers to much of anything ... FYI. When things get sorted out in my current situation, I want revisit many of Rupert's videos and just listen and see what I may learn on a visceral level. I find that being distracted makes really understanding more than difficult.

@saidas108 10 лет назад

Minahh People have different ideas of what the "purpose of life" is of course. People who enjoy a cushy of fun life seldom seriously consider such things and sort of skip through life. Nice life if you can get it :) The first of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths is that the nature of the world is suffering so one can start from there. Thoreau had it right with, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." If one doesn't believe in reincarnation, then it makes sense to squeeze every drop out of life and have as many pleasurable experiences as is possible. If one does however, then the purpose of life changes. Reincarnation is dictated by our actions in each life; karma in other words. When one tires of the journey (life after life after life) then one begins in earnest to be free of it and inquires into what causes it and more importantly, how to cease it. It really depends on where one is in their spiritual evolution. I believe that everything that happens is to lead us to the ultimate goal of God, Self-Realization, whatever you please, which to me is the purpose of life.

@fuldagermany 10 лет назад

Thank you my friend. Your response is wonderful and that is why I am crazy about you ... sigh ... you understand that I mean that in the most sincere and spiritual way. While I was writing this, just now, I heard a noise like something dropping on the floor. I went to check out what it might have been and I found that the ice maker in the fridge shot out ice cubes onto the floor ... with no one to trigger it. It has never happened before. I find that very interesting, to say the least. Perhaps, Spirit in action expressing that I am on point in what I just said????

@saidas108 10 лет назад

Minahh Either that or you need a new ice maker! :)

@TBOOYY 4 года назад

You know but you don't know

@shadracpierre3456 2 года назад

Boredom is uncomfortable 😂😂😂 Tell me about it 😂😂😂

@jeanniebellgrove4059 6 месяцев назад

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@konnectoneforexsignals7844 6 лет назад

Never plave white title over white backgrounds. No one can fully read it.

@robinaguenkel7534 Год назад

👍🇩🇪

@matthewmaguire3554 Год назад

Nah…The times you are off the mark, using to distract is when you don’t enjoy. Humans enjoy…Well made films and movies (knowing the work put into them) without enjoyment and engagement is a disservice to the creators…same for books and food and drinks…Not enjoying your food or just seeing it as a distraction is an insult to the food and off the mark…Having drinks and not enjoying the inebriation and doing it just to distract yourself is off the mark….Meditation out of some sense of rigid obligation or that it’s “good “ for you is off the mark. No one knows where it will take you, just do it let the process work on you and…enjoy it… When you meditate just meditate… when you eat and drink just eat and drink. When you watch movies and read books play chess play soccer put on a puppet show just do those things.When bored be bored. We’re making love make love. When getting drunk get drunk. Like the old Zen masters always just say over and over and over no separation.🍔🍺🍿

@hansgjerstad8895 Год назад

Life sucks then you die whether you are bored or 'awaken'.

@bethanienaylor Год назад

Life doesn't 'suck' if you awaken

@bethanienaylor Год назад

Pessimism it appears to me

@hansgjerstad8895 Год назад

@@bethanienaylor Or you can be awaken to the horrible fact that it actually does 'suck', but that's really not something to strive for I guess..

@bethanienaylor Год назад

@@hansgjerstad8895 lol

@Da_Xman Год назад

TROLL ALERT...!

@rogob1333 Год назад

Your flowers give you away. You are just another gamesman.

@user-hj7ld4ff7p Год назад

That's it. There's the proof. And it was sitting right there, too.

@rogob1333 Год назад

@@user-hj7ld4ff7p This guy can't hold a candle to Alan Watts. In the words of many great Bhuddist monnks, this guy "stinks" of Bhuddism.

@soniahazy4880 Год назад

🌈🧩🛸🦋🎼💎🙏

@MajorCulturalDivide 5 лет назад

why do you have to express beauty? that's a very limited form.

@freddystaelens 5 лет назад

MajorCulturalDivide Hi, your aka is truly dvaitic. I love a firm statement. Would you ask this question to a lady you fancy ? And then tell her, sorry i won’t date you, you are so limited.

@MajorCulturalDivide 5 лет назад

@@freddystaelens There are many other forms of expression that are just as worthy of being expressed that run the whole range of human experience. Otherwise there wouldn't be stage plays, punk music, rap and horror movies. Beauty is just one fraction of human potential. Thanks for responding!

@freddystaelens 5 лет назад

MajorCulturalDivide Hi my taste, as per my gunality, goes towards Furia dels baus, James White and the Blacks, Frank Zappa, Hildegard von Bingen, Bhimsen Johsi, STP 23, and my favorite: silence and bliss. Stay happy.

@adamsoullier563 8 лет назад

man these people in the audience are so robotic with their questions and the way they speak

@QED_ 7 лет назад

They're trying to be aware of what they say. They're mis-understanding how that works . . .

@rajfreestylo2735 6 лет назад

Understand the gravity of the question.If this don't apply to your field of queries..go to another video.

@johnret6674 10 лет назад

The absolutist term that u speak of is that u and only u understand. And "understand" if we may call it that. Again, the problem lies in the attachment of meaning to a word as if the meaning is totally understoodby everybody. YOUR absolute is way different from his absolute and her absolute. The problem lies in the word.And like any word, it is absolutely limited. Hahaha. My cousin R GALVEZ, told me that...and I assure u....he's absolutely smarter than all of you combined. Lols.

@drygordspellweaver8761 Год назад

Don’t watch the movie.

@DanielRamBeats 6 лет назад

This doesn't help, I am still bored.

@alfogel3298 5 лет назад

Daniel Ram I wouldn’t assume it doesn’t help. Yes, you are still bored but Rupert is not suggesting it will vanish overnight. it will take time before the boredom is uprooted. Rupert knew about “ I am being aware” from his teacher over a decade ago. But it takes time to break a feeling or ingrained illusory habit and it Rupert over 10 years before the false separate self began to sink into the heart. He’s saying basically ( in my opinion) to face the boredom, fear anxiety for a few minutes each time it arises and then watch the movie or other distraction. Al

@konnectoneforexsignals7844 6 лет назад

Why do all these enlightened people talk the same, low, slow, boring and unenthusiastic ?

@suckkmycandles 5 лет назад

because when you're speaking directly from wisdom/inspiration and not memorized theories and factoids, you do need to pause and take your time. if you don't get it you don't get it.