How Are Feeling Suffering and Freedom Related?

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How are feeling suffering and freedom related, a woman asks. She says that being open awareness doesn't stop the feeling of intense, unbearable suffering. Rupert responds that suffering is resistance to what is. Suffering is always the thought or feeling, 'I don't like what is present'.
Suffering is wanting or not wanting what is presently happening. That is, if we are resisting or pushing away what is and longing for what is not, we will always suffer.
When we see our true nature clearly, we know that what we truly are can not suffer - all we are infinite awareness or consciousness, shining, pure and untouched. The nature of awareness is pure being which is open and allowing. Just like the space of a room, it doesn't reject anything that happens inside the room.
In this non-dual understanding, accepting everything as it is becomes natural and freedom from suffering ensues. That is, accepting what is is the ultimate freedom that comes from recognising our true and shared nature of pure being or consciousness, sometimes referred to as oneness.
This clip comes from one of Rupert's retreats at Mercy Center, CA, 24 - 31 October, 2021.
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Комментарии : 49

@lostwarriorwandering 2 года назад

Ahhh …. Rupert always helps me remember ♾ There are dog whisperers, horse whisperers, Rupert is an awareness whisperer :)

@soubhikmukherjee6871 2 года назад

Hope the lady gets to experience eternal happiness 😊 🙂 ☺

@deannfrey3469 2 года назад

He is a shining beckon of love. So compassionate. His wisdom helps peace arise in me. 💕

@bethasigri4766 2 года назад

You're not resisting!

@llluke4657 2 года назад

I can fully attest to the truth being spoken here. I suffered for many years until I was shown the futility of resistance. It is very helpful to hear a compassionate reminder.

@wabnigajackjson6595 2 года назад

I like your wisdom

@lynnrixson1094 2 года назад

Loved this ! So clearly put across 😊

@simonjones6128 2 года назад

Yep.. once tasted awareness gets used to itself. Self evident and simple. Yet people can go thier entire life without tasting it for even one second. Its in the seeing yet in the seen it is not. In the listening and yet can.t be heard. It can.t be grasped by hand or mind. Yet it never comes or goes. Awareness is never close or far. Its that placless place that mind ..thoughts and thinking camouflage. Its so simple yet the ego / mind can.t survive . They have to die like the imposters that they are.

@sugarfree1894 2 года назад

Awareness does not get used to itself. Awareness doesn't do anything. It is not a thing, it can't be tasted - indeed, by Rupert's narrative, who or what would taste it? Who would see it?

@brianlittrell797 2 года назад

@@sugarfree1894 Awareness is the awareness that you are aware right? But everybody is aware that they are aware. So what is enlightenment then? It's more than just being aware that you are aware right?

@Maharani1991 2 года назад

@@brianlittrell797 Good question!

@brianlittrell797 2 года назад

@@Maharani1991 My best answer would be that enlightenment is when you are no longer identified with or attached to the thoughts, feelings and sensations that pass through your consciousness. And also the experience of being perfectly at peace and content all of the time no matter what happens to you or around you. You are therefore permanently free of suffering and always experiencing the essence of God. How one gets to this stage of development I don't know for sure. Perhaps simply the practicing of witnessing the content of one's experience without identifying with it/attaching to it/getting lost in it. Just remaining conscious, present, alert without getting absorbed by and lost in thoughts, feelings and sensations. Or getting identified with them. Perhaps by doing this often enough you go deeper into your own being and contact the essence of who you are which is peace, joy, love and everything else God is. Perhaps by being the witness for long enough it stills the mind and opens it to an influx of divine energy from the soul. The soul then enlightens the mind and the entire being of the person. Just a theory that makes sense to me.

@Haasaaroni 2 года назад

Love this question. So real and understandable and innocent.

@MrPrayuda 2 года назад

Thanks, Rupert..

@MrLorenzobringheli 2 года назад

Awesome! Thank you Rupert 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

@mansuralimirani4186 2 года назад

You are really blessed Rupert I have no words Thankyou

@deveshs.2608 2 года назад

Heard you after so many days and I cried the moment you said your first sentence, "Suffering is always Resistance". Thank you so much for existing, Rupert. I mean it when I say this, that I'm really blessed to know you. I'm thankful to you for posting videos and sharing your understanding with the world. I wish I could meet you in person someday.

@ginaparker431 2 года назад

I have achieved self-fool-fillment

@sugarfree1894 2 года назад

lol, that's funny :)

@Lunalily444 2 года назад

So thankful to have him share this knowledge 🙏♥️

@voodoospear1113 2 года назад

No Teacher No Guru No Student, Shanti Shanti Rupert

@arottie4097 2 года назад

W0W!

@I-Am-Aware 2 года назад

Thank you, yet again, Rupert. You are such a gift to humanity. You, and the information you shared about the nature of true Self, were instrumental in freeing "me" from the "belief" that I could have ever been a body-mind. Deep gratitude. 🙏🧡

@happydays3678 2 года назад

Rupert is such a wonderful teacher. Wow! I really understood, so clearly put. I felt a small shift in my thinking that has made a huge difference. Thank you ❤🙏

@pursuitofspirit 2 года назад

Beautifully put, thank you Rupert

@NondualityChannel 2 года назад

There is no freedom when there is suffering. Resisting what-is entraps oneself.

@andrewhussey8702 2 года назад

The recognition of the Priceless Placeless Place. No escape.

@gireeshneroth7127 2 года назад

50-50. Awareness is to blame itself for living an illusion it moulds out of itself.

@sugarfree1894 2 года назад

But Rupert, you HAVE just said that in a public setting.

@Ymiraku 2 года назад

So experience is just experience... suffering is just a superimposition of ego upon experiences which interprets certain experiences as suffering

@Robinson8491 2 года назад

This is actually pretty great

@nobodyreally 2 года назад

💛

@xcelgolf 2 года назад

I sent that before I was done but I hope you get the point. 🙏

@pradippsm1983 2 года назад

🙏

@IAM-mc4gb 2 года назад

🙏🙏🙏🌞💛🌻🌈

@22424 2 года назад

He has no problem with long pauses

@smileifyoudontexist6320 2 года назад

Degrees of suffering measures the distance from Our Awareness of our self to the center of the existential Nature of the Selfs embedded Existence in Nature? Approximately

@smileifyoudontexist6320 2 года назад

Suffering is the keyhole and the casting cavity . Body & Mind are metal and its qualities of changing through various phases states and forms . Knowelege is the outcome of casting a key in the Shape of the suffering.. Without suffering there is No Need of Knowelege..

@moonglow6639 2 года назад

Suffering and freedom (of suffering) are two sides of the same coin right?

@nsc2443 4 месяца назад

👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏

@jordicostadomenech8270 2 года назад

Hola ¡ 4:02 com ho veig és que jo tal com sóc sóc la conciencia mateixa es diu que a conciencia no coneix el dolor o sofriment, una cosa es que el sofriment no tingui entitat creat per un jo separat i altre cosa es que jo conciencia que sóc sí que está actuant com si sufrís es a dir la meva actuació en ignorancia també es la conciencia que sóc qui la fa o sigui la conciencia no sap res de dolor o patiment al mateix temps que sí ja que jo sóc ella 4:11 bé, ara aquí ho arregla

@antonlarm8178 2 года назад

"If you have this intense suffering, it does not help to be transparent awareness" no..no..no..if you recognize your true being of transparant awareness Suffering can not exist at the same time...

@xcelgolf 2 года назад

Can anyone help me with this question? If the Ego is an illusion and we are Pure Awareness, how is it that this Pure Awareness, which we truly are, can be fooled by the Ego and our true self, the open, free, peaceful Awareness

@brianlittrell797 2 года назад

I suspect it is a case of Pure Awareness being asleep. Not awake to itself. The awareness becomes identified with and attached to thoughts. It believes the thoughts that are passing through it. It becomes identified with them or attached to them. This causes suffering in many cases. It does the same thing with feelings, emotions and sensations. It is the non-identification and non-attachment from thoughts, feelings, sensations that causes us to be free of suffering and causes Awareness to become more aware of it's own nature and experience itself more fully. It is perhaps akin to dreaming unconsciously and having a lucid dream. When you have a nightmare and you become fully lucid you usually immediately experience freedom from suffering. Usually there is a sense of freedom and joy when one becomes lucid because you wake up in the dream. The quality of your consciousness changes because you are no longer attached to the dream you are having and you become a witness. You can then enjoy the dream and act in the dream with no attachment to what is happening and with the witness self/observer self active.