Go back to yourself time after time. Sit still in silence every day, 20 minutes. Some days will be 'good', others will not. Just keep coming back, to yourself, every day. Thinking won't do it. Just sit still, in silence, no guided meditation, just stillness and silence; if you need to focus on something, focus on your breath. Keep at it. You will never, ever, get to the bottom of it. There will be no end to your journey. It will continue on and on. Andy by sitting in stillness and silence every day, your journey will become wondrous.
@@laurencem6448 Become as still, peaceful and quiet as you can. Become present to and within your body to the fullest extent possible. Then breathe light into your body. Use your mind to see it.
It fills my heart to read these comments of so many people who have awakened. It isn't part of our daily dialogue to speak with others like this. Thankful for Rupert sharing and for everyone here and in the world who have seen through the veil. Love n light.
Rupert, your teaching is like finding water in the desert! I come from an emotionally abusive childhood with such relentless criticism that I came to believe that I was unworthy even to be alive. Twenty years of therapy have enabled me to live a happy, relatively balanced life, but I can still, on occasion, be triggered, especially if I have made some kind of mistake. Then I do what I call “fall into the pit” of guilt, shame and self hatred. It happened a couple of weeks ago, and two days later I stumbled upon you on RU-vid. As I said, it was like finding an oasis in the desert, and I have been drinking in your words every possible moment ever since. The idea of taking 10 seconds to stop and remember that I AM - the calm, unchanging, impartial screen unharmed by past experiences - makes complete sense to me. I am practicing it many, many times a day, so that the next time a trigger comes, it will only take me 10 seconds to return to clarity. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
7:24 When you lose clarity or get lost in an experience, ask, "What is it that is aware of your experience?" Don't answer with words. Simply return to that which is aware of your experience.
This is often my case.Clarity and confusion is still state of mind. Beyond mind is state of being aware. When confusion comes, stop contemplating and then just be. This immediately brings one back to state of being aware.
@@keithoyoung34 Keith it’s honestly amazing my friend. We have had so much information over time of what all of this looks like, but not a simple practical way to TRULY get there that can work for all, and that’s what Byron Katie discovered. There are 2 worksheets she offers that you can google. One is called the “judge your neighbor worksheet” and the other I believe is called “one belief at a time”. So one is to do with pain from others and the other is for situations. Now in doing these one by one (I suggest doing them with EVERY SINGLE THOUGHT YOU HAVE THAT CAUSES YOU PAIN) you will see that this state becomes so natural with zero effort thoughts or energy to sustain. Because that state of awareness/bliss IS our natural state, and like Rupert said our thoughts are getting in the way. This removes each thought indefinitely because these thoughts can not survive awareness. I promise as much as I can be certain of anything, you stick with this long enough and one by one that state becomes more and more natural. SO SO blessed to have this system! Give it a shot and I’m here to help in any areas I can! I will be making TONS of videos on this in the future on this channel probably in the next 6 months or so if desired to check back! Love you all more than you know! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
Rupert is right. But the problem is when you've got traumas and strong negative triggers it's not so easy to come back to yourself. You need to spend time healing the traumas so you can come back to yourself more easily
Yes! I had some trauma that completely changed me and I haven’t been able to meditate anything close to how I use to or experience clarity since then. Thank you for your comment. Very wise.
I think you’re right. What we don’t often realize when RU-vid is the sole source of information for ‘awakening,’ is the the amount of body work done conscientiously at retreats, in therapy, or inadvertently in private as we let go of old beliefs and patterns. Trauma - as I use it here - is any emotional energy stored in the body, and in my experience, needs to be released and/or recognized to help move the process along. TRE is an easy and useful modality I’ve used, but there are many others.
What Rupert is saying is possible only when you've once tasted that feeling of being home aka awareness. If you've not experienced it once, you would not know how to come back to it. That experience is where you realise that the mind and its traumas and dramas are just mere objects that appear and disappear in you. When you'll realise that the first time you'll laugh at yourself for giving attention to mind's stupidity as you could clearly see that you are just seeing it and it is separate from you and has no effect on you. It is very essential to have that experience once. It is essential to experience being home once. If not, you'll not know how to come back. And if you have experienced once, it is not possible to stay away from it for long.
"Let go of the negative past", Dr. Thomas A. Richards. And this, from Osho... This is the way to live... One moment... Be in it. But be in it so totally... That nothing is left to be carried into another moment. Never carry on things from the past, it is gone Every moment, be rid of it. Solved or not solved Nothing can be done about it Drop it off
Yes it takes time but nothing is permanent here no thought trauma loss any negative thing even positive thing just being or consciousness remains here as long as we r here in this world
Trusting the words of the teacher also helps in clearing the mind for effective self attention. For example, my teacher says, "That which exists at all moments you know of, alone is truth. Rest is untruth". Trusting these words gives me courage to devalue the objects of experience and auto focus myself to that which always is.
@@bharghavij2986 your inner self , who is never separate from I AM Present / your individuality of GOD/ . You true Self , your Christe Spark , that part i am saying in my comment "other" self
Also in (Dzogchen) they say relax into whatever is acurring, experience phenomenon in the here and now ,even thought and feelings are naturally liberated.
My beautiful teacher thank you 🙏 I’ve used what you express - I’ve caught myself feeling down and heavy and about an hour into it I’m like wait a minute why am I feeling this way and usually I just laugh about it and go about my day ever keeping my awareness of the heart and God , lovingly guiding myself back into being ok . And it is because it always was .
I think we’re all aware of the screen or that state of consciousness, awareness that’s behind our everyday activities but it’s just how clever , manipulative and seductive the mind, ego can be at keeping you in its state of importance so I truly relate to his question Returning is an ongoing drawing back and sometimes I’m easily in the state of now and it’s beautiful and everything seems so dimmed yet I’m present to what’s occurring but other times I’m drawn in by it’s power and my own sense of belief and it’s like it makes me believe this is where it’s at Still I continually return to my real home and I fully realize that’s where my blliss wonder and essence lives and all will be well as my mother would always say....❤️
The very fact that the questioner is aware of his ups and downs is the best proof of the progress he has got watching the Rupert’s videos and reading Vedanta. The only thing he need is the recognition that he is not the one who have ups or downs but the one who is aware of them
Self does not come and go...either the illusory "me" is believed or it is not. When the illusion of "me" has been shattered, clarity or experiences of some kind do not matter. The Sel is all there is.
What Rupert is saying is possible only when you've once tasted that feeling of being home aka awareness. If you've not experienced it once, you would not know how to come back to it. That experience is where you realise that the mind and its traumas and dramas are just mere objects that appear and disappear in you. When you'll realise that the first time you'll laugh at yourself for giving attention to mind's stupidity as you could clearly see that you are just seeing it and it is separate from you and has no effect on you. It is very essential to have that experience once. It is essential to experience being home once. If not, you'll not know how to come back. And if you have experienced once, it is not possible to stay away from it for long.
LOOOVE that 10 min max requirement. I totally relate to the speakers back and forth clarity. I guess when I get back to awareness, I really am there but sometimes my mind enters and says “no you’re not doing it right” blah blah blah…which is more separate self identification but if I ever feel like “I can’t get back to myself fast enough” it’s THAT voice that traps me
Dear Rupert Sir, I have a few questions: 1. Realization of self is being spoken since centuries. Great seekers have realized and one among them is Bhagawan Sri RamaNa and teachers like you. Now, there are people, there are births and deaths. Does it not imply that although, there may have been a few who would have realized, does the continuance not indicate that creation has been there and will also be there? So, on one side we say we have realized, but the fact that the creation is continuing, does it not imply, that it is not just within an individual's effort? If so, how is this going to help? 2. On the top of this, if self continues to manifest and that one among those manifested realize " I am that", manifestation still continues? I feel that in (God's) dream, we are asking the dreamed character to realize ..but if not for that character, the dreamer dreams of something else? So long he thinks, manifestation exists. Then, what are we achieving thru the effort for realization? Where is this all going? Request your response. Regards, RK
You could say nothing changes, but you could also say everything changes. Depends how you look at it. Obviously "the end of suffering", to quote the Buddha, is a pretty big deal and would be a vastly profound change to ones experience.
Before giving my comment to this subject , I was very very careful , for sure I don’t mislead everyone who participated on this course . To me , it’s important . In the East we say “ enlightenment is not hard to get once we have , it’s difficult 😥 to maintain it “ . I think there are many layers or levels of self awareness. Discipline is a key if someone has a strong desire to rediscover what is . It really didn’t dissipate or lose its nectar just to follow guidelines and precepts not in terms of religious idealism but rather to cultivate continuously ( time after time) .
The question calls for generalization, disregarding many variables in people's individuality. To one person the magic inner motion toward peace could mean acceptance, nonjudgmental blending with the flow of experiencing -- whereas to another, a radical, almost disciplinarian attitude would call for insistence on reprogramming the mind through willful positivism. One has to discover their own intuitive fingerprint for some kind of inner guidance. In this culture it's true that "one thinks and hundred just follow", which is the symptom of mental laziness of expecting others to tell us how to get out of those very intimate emotional mazes where only we can point to the way out. For we did it -- we can undo it.
It's interesting... the thought "How do I return to myself?" is the core of dissociation. How can I be anything other than myself? If I was anything other than myself, where does the desire to return to myself come from if it does not come from myself? And if that desire is strongly felt, who feels it -- myself, or some other self masquerading as "myself"?
It occurs to me: that being lost in the mind or experience is natural and spontaneous, and the demand for unending detachment to Life is unrealistic and probably not at all "healthy" place to be. Depression, uncertainty, confusion, and disappointment are part of Life.
@@Misslotusification Contentedness Results from acceptance and embracing the slings and arrows of life . Suffering is its avoidance, and demand for it to be otherwise.
In perspective, if we have lived most of our lives so far, entrained in a certain way of thinking, it would make sense that it would take some time to undo.
I simply can't imagine the necessary dualistic splitting that is preached, even after sincerely trying for decades. I just don't 'get' how to split into 'me' & 'myself' ... or 'I' & 'my mind / feelings / brain' that seems to be a prerequisite for these buddhist-style teachings, where one has to imagine 2 'selves' or 'good / bad' etc. I naturally drift back to seeing everything as manifestations of aspects of Allness / the Pleroma / the Universe (what I mistakenly thought was meant by the Tao). I give up. There aren't 2 or more 'I's for me. Maybe I'm unusual or weird - but I just can't dis-integrate into pieces as most gurus, psych 'experts' & 'therapists' teach, even after serious, prolonged trying. :\ Dualism just isn't for me.
Thank you for all your cmpassion and clarity Rupert! I have a question that maybe other followers can comment on it. I am going through intense and continuous fases of purging, including intense kriyas also. When Im in this situations of so much overwhelm with so much shadow material, and sometimes wonder if I should be triyng to go to the awareness or it needs to be let to go out, I dont get totally identified in the purging, I am clear that is material coming out. Thanks in advance. Hopes it resonates with someone. Blessings to all.
When those situations come up you have identified as a person. I have to stop listening to my thoughts and I repeat in meditation on the pain saying ,I am not my thoughts I am not my feelings I am not my bodily sensations I am that which is aware of them ,I am the awareness ,doing that has cleared some serious stuff for me .
Sorry to just keep talking at you, especially when the topic is so negative, but I don't get to express this very often. How can I be reminded of myself if not by experience, which I don't control? I don't control my thoughts and it's my thoughts that both keep me and bring me "closer" to myself. It seems that if the universe, or circumstance, or conditions had not brought me to see Rupert's talks then I would most certainly not recognize myself in everyday life, so even though I HAVE seen his talks that in itself is still just a product of circumstance. Again, sorry to rant. Don't feel like you have to reply or anything, but thanks for reading this if you did.
@@suptatoms Are you able to wash the dishes when you don't feel like it? Yes. Are you able to make the bed when you don't feel like it? Yes. And so on. So clearly at some level you can make yourself do things rather than waiting for them to just happen. All the great teachers of eastern spirituality throughout history tell you you will need to make yourself practice. What is this practice in non-duality? It's noticing the feeling of awareness. Going back to it over and over. Using various approaches as pointed out by Rupert. Or instructions by Ramana Maharashi or Nisargadatta. At the level that you make yourself do things, do that. Set aside hours and do it for hours if you are really serious. All the big teachers say you must practice, you must want it, you must be earnest. Sometimes people will say "you are already it", which is a powerful pointer, but it doesn't mean dont try hard as well. You do both. You see it is all perfect now, you are it now, and then you try to sustain that feeling with hard work if that's what it takes. It's somewhat paradoxical but not enough to stop you doing it. Accept the paradox and keep fighting forward.
Please Rupert, say something about the War in Ukraine that can calm this deep pain and impotence that I feel for the Human Being...I see no more hope than in The Being but my Being cannot include Putin...The human conscience has no remedy and I do not I have no hope💙
@@nadiacorellagamella5380 The being we call Putin is unconscious. He was programed since he was born to fear and to take action from that fear. The thoughts he identifies with, his personality, are truly vile and cruel. But he is not those thoughts. he just believes he is, so his actions are on autopilot. The one who watches from his eyes, the one beyond or before the complexes and thought patterns is pure and untouched. It is this being we share. On a more physical temporal level, what is happening in Ukrainian is an old energy. It is part of a fear which has dominated this planet for thousands of years, but that time is ending. An awakening is taking place that will strip the fear of its power. A light is growing and it’s brightness will dispel the darkness that the fear needs to survive. There are many beings on the earth at this time intentionally sinking deeply into the love, hope and light. You don’t hear about them because they do it in silence. But they shall come forth. 2000 years ago Christ walked this planet, he was one man. He healed people, calmed seas, multiplied food, spoke of the freedom of consciousness and we killed him. There have been many masters, but not that many. Soon there will be thousands upon thousands. The Darkness, which troubles you, will flee from their presence. I invite you to lay up your troubles and fears at the feet of “God or consciousness” and join them. I love you and I promise you, It will be alright! You are my sister and I love you. I promise, You will find peace and light if you look for it. It is who you are. I am that I am.
This answer was a denial of the fact that there is not just continual forward progress as in ten minutes one day, 8 the next, and five the day after that.
So simple. For me it has become instantaneous. Almost before I notice my fear or anger of whatever, before I have a chance to pull back and be the seer, I see my body has already dealt with it...automatically. Great teaching, this. 💖
I think like an actor we should enjoy playing our role in movie of our life All scenes of movie should be enjoyed whether role of hero or villain because it's just movie not really
If I love someone ,then who loves ? "I am" ness or the mind ? If the answer is mind, then does it mean that awareness doesn't have feelings like love ,mercy 🤔 ?
If the love expects in return, it judges, it hurts.. it's the ego that is loving... if the love is unconditional, one way, for everyone, it's your being flowing out in the world..
Can someone explain what he means by asking yourself 'What is it that is aware of my depression?" I don't understand what he means by that. Can someone please explain, I don't understand the question I am supposed to ask myself.
You are not your body nor your mind so,who are you? You are consciousness so by asking the question you get back being who you are but this just doesn't give you a quick remedy to minimise thoughts,feelings etc you have to do meditation mindfulness every waking hour and one day you'll be there then you'll understand who you are .
That question can be asked in other way like this .. "How do you know that you are feeling depressed ?" You are aware of it , so you know it. You are that 'Awareness' which knows that there is a feeling of depression. I guess Rupert says so.
@BJ Thanks ! I think I understand now. So what he is saying is, once you realize that you are the one that is aware of the depression, them you can trace yourself back to yourself
@@salpaparo2466 - Maybe easier with thoughts - sometimes we just think about things randomly. If i asked you to tell me what you are thinking about - its the awareness that knows what you are thinking ? - if that helps. Your thoughts are like ideas - you are aware what ideas you are having, or what thoughts are going through your mind atm.
Are you implying with your answer that the mind is consciousness? It has been said that the body-mind construct is only the manifestation of consciousness, the mind isn't a 'thing' but is a movement within consciousness which can control itself, consciousness merely observes this movement. When speaking with the abbot of our village Buddhist temple (I live in Asia) I mentioned that I can blank out the minds movement at will without any effort but I get nothing from it, he said that is obvious, consciousness is then only aware of a blank state what is to be gained by that. I am not an enlightened person, I don't even know what that means but I am inherently content, that is enough for me. If everything is Brahman then the guru is Brahman - ego and the Jiva is Brahman + ego, both are still Brahman so why bother. Maya must be a construct of Brahman and therefore desired and has a purpose.
@@FabSia No, it just happens if I want it to but thoughts start to arise after a few minuets, I then just banish them again, it isn't a state that I keep up longer than 10 minuets because I don't see any point in it. I don't have to meditate, I can do this in a room full of people or when just walking along a path. I thought this was normal but when talking with one of the monks at our temple he said it was unusual and normally requires practice. Obviously I am still conscious and can observe things around me and understand if someone speaks to me but there is no comment in my head and no thought accompanies the spoken word but if I speak it is finished, gone.
@@FabSia When re-reading my reply to you I realized that I do do something when thoughts start to arise in the blank state, I breath through my nose imagining that the breath first travels through my head sweeping away the thoughts through my nostrils, the thoughts then disappear and don't start to reappear for another 3 or 4 minuets, repeat and rinse. Apart from relaxation I don't see any point in the blank state unless you are anxious about something. Out of interest in philosophy I have read much about the Buddhist and Hindu interpretations of consciousness, they differ. I watch some spiritual teachings on youtube, Rupert Spira, Francis Lucille, Eckhart Tolle etc. they also differ in some respects but they are all still just concepts, they don't convince me. Eckhart Tolle is the only one who offers practical help in daily life without too much wu wu. It does surprise me that many people who go on these retreats (seen from the questions asked and the reactions) are broken people who do need help and maybe these retreats do some good.
Enlightenment is the normal circulation of a liquid called CSF in the spine ! For most of the people, the normal circulation of this liquid is blocked or limited! Somehow it’s related to the balance in the spine!
The body mind cannot feel so it has no feelings, it only experiences pain or pleasure these are not feelings they are not real, like the body mind. But SELF knows Love and joy because they are felt feelings from thruth. The only thruth is Love that can never be felt by the body mind because it's not real, how can something that's not real can feel. So depression comes from a mind that has no feelings of love , joy or peace.
@@bharghavij2986 Because the body cannot feel so it has no feelings, it can only experience pain and pleasure both are not real because the body mind is an illusion.
Guys the best answer to this (not that its wrong, I just find it not very practical for most of us) is doing THE WOK BY BYRON KATIE! It will work 100% with enough worksheets, promise:). Sending love and hugs guys ❤️🔥
