I Am 

“We cannot know ourselves, we can only be ourselves knowingly”👍🏽

Beautiful, patient, perfect wisdom. Rupert "you" are a treasure.

I wish someone would make the point that the reason I say I slept well is because of the way I feel when I’m saying it. I judge whether I slept well by the awareness of the body/mind/emotions at the moment I make the statement not by the qualities of the deep sleep.

Rupert, I can't imagine my life without your precise teachings.... You are amazing......

The way Rupert helps you to see your own deepest blindness is nothing short of amazing....

When he says ‘so what’, Rupert handles that so expertly he helps him understand, much for us all to learn here

A truly accomplished advaitin master. One such as him but rarely walks the earth. We are lucky to have him in our midst.

Rupert the great. Blessing to all of us.Such simply put.

I often see advaita teachers making this assertion. But when I say “I slept well” I am referring to how I feel in the present moment. It doesn’t necessarily mean that I had the experience of sleeping well or that I was aware during deep sleep, it’s that I feel refreshed and assume that I slept well.

Bingo! I was the same as him, 'cannot find myself,' beautiful explication of the nature of 'I Am,' been looking for this for awhile!

FOR MY EGO THIS IS THE BEST TALK OF RUPERT I´VE NEVER LISTENED ...... touché

Amazing explanation of "I AM"

The reason why I know I slept well is in the instant I wake up, my body is heavy, I’m in a semi-sleep state like I’ve been on drugs, my brain is half conscious, I have this profound feeling of satisfaction. I’m need to stretch and breathe and I don’t want to get out of bed. That’s what happens when I know I slept well, you?

Thank you, for your inspiration. A three word prayer. That came to me is this: "Aloha I am" Amen.

Beautiful, I love all his videos, I have read his books, he explained excellent. Thank you

Thank u Rupert ❤

I wish Rupert would have been a little kinder in the first half. I know he was explaining to him concepts that people who come to these retreats are usually familiar with, but compassion can never hurt us. Love is indeed the nature of our being, after all. I’m glad he softened afterwards though, and it seemed to help the questioner understand:)

C'est Magnifique!

Superb; sense that guy got there in the end. Took a masterful display from Rupert to get him there x

Thanks, Rupert

👍 Rupert Explained it perfectly!

Thank you! 🙏😊❤️

Awareness is always On/eternal. Awareness of the mind is blackness or restful(passive) in deep sleep. In waking state, body and mind are active in awareness, so that mind recognizes that sleep was well. Can we live with that pure awareness/restful while we are in the state of waking state? That is a real meditation. Center in the existence, consciousness and bliss.

Recently had surgery and with the anesthesia I was out totally. Asleep and then awake with no sense of anything in between whatsoever. No awareness or consciousness whatsoever. No sense of a good sleep or a bad sleep but a total sense of non existence. No I Am. That doesn’t mean that consciousness was there it simply means that nothing went into memory like someone in a blackout. ❤

Rupert Spira is best at cutting intellectual mind to understand the real nature of Being.......

DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad. Thanksgretitude Rupertspira

What's interesting is we all know instinctively that the "I AM" has no objective qualities. Have you ever thought to yourself, "what if i was a rock?" That question alone implies that you KNOW that the true nature of what you are is not this body or the brain or the mind. I AM that I AM

I finally lost my mind! And i love it :)

Most peaceful residing in heart as I

Just wow! ❤️🙏🏻❤️

Beautifull !

I'm not aware when I'm in deep sleep. I know I slept well, not because I was aware of it while I was sleeping, but because I woke up fully rested and my sleep had been uninterrupted. All a bit silly.

Thoughts and feelings indeed come and go but the sense of embodiment has never left me throughout my life. Save for having an out of body experience I doubt I will feel absolutely assured I am not my body.

This is IT!!!

🙏 I AM🙏

"Those who talk do not know, those who know, do not talk."

Absolutely brilliant explanation coupled with high logic...Adi Shankaracharya would be proud of him!!😊

He is a great philosopher!

The self can only be seen by itself

Abide as awareness.🙏

For ESL speakers: " I AM = I Exist"

beautiful

My master 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Something like consciousness that can’t be explained as an object can be explained as a process!

This guy sounded so rude and cocky, glad you put him in is place.

Thank you, Rupert

I love myself ever present awarness

Pure Subject

*comes to video, clicks 'like' immediately, before video starts*

I wish I could speak with Rupert... I had a profound experience listening to his discussion and damn... idk why but i want to talk about it..

I am holding the same place in the universe what I was holding in my dream.

Amazing talk. This is one of the finest and clearest neti-neti guidance I've seen in a while. And yet, that question of "how do you know you slept well?", isn't that an inference that we do in the morning? "I feel well now that I wake up, therefore I must have slept well" and not a direct experience of sleeping well during the whole night? Thank you, Rupert.

the experience of me sleeping well is not the experience of some self as it slept, its the experience of some self in the moment of waking up, in this moment my body can feel rested, slowed down whatever, its not a experience from the time while i was sleping, so i dont know that i slept, or existed while i was sleping, there was no I am, there was nothing or there wasnt evan that...

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I don’t know... if someone asked me if I slept well, I would answer depending on how I felt in the moment. If I felt groggy and tired and have memories of vivid nightmares, I would say no. If I slept like a baby through the night and woke up feeling refreshed, I would say yes. In no way would I refer to my experience of deep sleep, since I have no recollection of deep sleep.

Wow!

I can see clearly now my brain has gone

The effect it had on my body obviously. It's not always about being aware of the process as it is being aware of its results through personal experience. In all actuallity, experience is necessarily the result and not the process.

One question: I say I slept well because my mind feels refreshed and it concludes it must have rested well. Why does it have to point to the presence of awareness in deep sleep?

Awareness has two modes of functioning/knowing: conscious and unconscious, and functions in both modes simultaneously. Thus our heart beats on its own unconsciously while we consciously attend to something else. We cannot know our self as an object because what we are has no objective qualities to be known. We can only experience being our self knowingly. Be still and know that I am, in contrast to what I am and who I am and is that from which they arise and that to which they return.

When I say "I slept well", I mean that my body feels great and well rested in this moment. The other possibility is still feeling sleepy, it feeling unwell.

...well, you don't have the experience of I AM while in deep sleep, you only know the pure I AM was present afterwards by the absence of experiences in deep sleep...

I know I’ve slept well when I don’t wake up during the night and wake up not feeling tired.

Imagine Rupert on LSD! I'd love to be part of that conversation!

The problem with what Rupert is saying here is that thoughts and perceptions are not actually discreet, they are a constantly changing flow of vibrational change, like ripples on water. So the question should be ‘have you ever had an experience of no experience?’ To which the answer would certainly be no, which would imply that awareness and experience are inseparable.

clear explanation of "I am" if someone dont understand it :)

Yes

He begins with a misstatement; that the questioner, or Rupert, have “no objectivity”. But this not a unquestionable fact. For example, there is (or at least was at the filming moment) a maximum bench press weight he can lift (not very much I’d wager), or that he does have a British accent, and so forth, or that he hasn’t wings to fly with. This is indeed an object of him. It is undeniable. Next: “I am” changes considerably as an experience depending on the state of affairs, I am (pissed off, 43 years old, raised in South Africa, married with 2 children, fluent in Italian....there is always something more that can be added to the sentence “I am _____”. Heidegger proved this. We are beings IN A WORLD, DASEIN, the-there, somewhere, engaged with time, materials, cares, and surroundings. ...simply finish the sentence. Even if we limit it to “I am alive” (as opposed to “I am dead” ). This is therefore not eternal, nor infinite unless he wishes to resort to pure mystical speculation and fairy tale talk, which he seems very to NOT want to do. So what is Rupert directing us to? Someone please intelligently help me see the light here...finally, when he asked have you ever been in a state of non-existence, I would have to say YES, under general anesthesia for one you are essentially gone, you could have been under for a minute or a month, you wouldn’t know, that is what makes it possible to cut you open without pain, is it a temporary unplugging of ALL awareness. Another answer could be prior to my birth, while gestating. Alive but unconscious. Deep sleep can be like this, but the reason deep sleep fails to satisfy the non-existence thought experiment is that our waking is so close to the surface, should a loud noise or drastic change in environment or such occur you would awaken, and so the body is in a dormant state of awareness in sleep, leaving these emergency systems in place for protection, a product of evolution probably....under general anesthesia there is no “I”. I want to be blown away by Rupert’s wisdom he leaves many philosophical holes open, its not a tight argument. He may be deluding himself.

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One is never aware ALL the time that he or she is. when engaged with activity the awareness is elsewhere. So the awareness of that is equally fleeting. Whilst the awareness itself trully never leaves, still, in deep sleep there can not be any awareness detection simply because there is nothing there which would activate it. Therefore, it is time to introduce another viewpoint, a word, by which to define that i am, i.e, awareness. As long as one says i am awareness, one can not disasociate from ego. So instead of saying i am, awareness, it is better to say, there is nothing but awareness - a phenomenon.. consciousness by which everything is known. The easiest way to see exactly what mind does when i is reffered to and a charge invested into a sense of self is going after the experience of no self. Some ten years ago i came across one very simple test, seemingly innocent, on the net, and i believe the page is still there. It is called No Self Experience.. because whilst you would bet your life that you are, the matter of fact is that there is everything else but the self. Nothing and noone can define you. Guess why? you are not part of existence. You are a phenomenon, a universal phenomenon which is creating everything, even yourself. But that is difficult to follow, because in these shoes one has got a firm trust that - i am. And the intruder is the I. But when you ride a bike, two legs are peddaling, an ass is sitting, eyes seeing, mind is humming a tune, and when you get to your destination the mind says " i have arrived". But that is not true. Your ass did... it is painful to lose the individuality. But do not worry, individuality will always be there, because the phenomenon of awareness and consciousness is not personal. And that which is aware is intrinsincly you, a phenomenon. Not a spirit, not a soul, not a god, or a body, or mind... but a mere phenomenon. Isnt that akin to a miracle? Mind blowing, when you try to comprehend it.. contain it.. the only useful thing at this point for anyone is just to observe how the mind uses the sense of self to get involved into the world which it can not touch.. the rest is less relevant for now

Could you please put Portuguese subtitles

If perception is everything, I am nothing.

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There is a question I would dearly love to ask Rupert Spira, but unfortunately there is no way of doing so without attending one of his events. My question is "Where am I under anaesthetic?" In my experience of anaesthesia for surgery, I simply didn't seem to exist beetween losing consciousness and re-gaining it after the op. Absolute nothingness, absolutely no "I am" and scary. I would appreciate others' experience in this area

Rupert. I have not seen you “prove” the presence of “I” in deep sleep - in any videos. My self inquiry simply returns the fact, that I have no experience at all. Or a memory of an experience for that matter. “I slept well” is about as poor an explanation, I can think of. Would love to believe, that I’m still around under deep sleep, but I cannot verify it.

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No, you say you slept well if you have a good feeling in the body and you don't feel tired. I am unaware that I slept, only on reflection that there is a memory hole I can think I slept.

Hi Rupert, I found that when I'm asking the questions to another person it is well accepted if I ask them to try to be aware of being without feeling it with the five senses. To imagine not feeling, seeing, hearing, speaking or touching anything...are you still being? This kind of experience seems to be easier for a person to experience being aware of awareness.

How do you know "I am" is not a thought? If you can't describe yourself, how could you even say "it is" or "it is not"?

I am confused about the state of deep sleep. Rupert Spira says that "I am always present". I think it requires some clarifications. If someone talks to me in deep sleep I will not reply. In a certain sense the "I" ceases to be present. When I say "I slept well", it is not because "I" was always aware, it is because my body feels rested now, and I have also a thought that it was not the case before. I thought that in other clips he considers the "deep sleep situation" as an example where the "I" is gone. Also, can I say "I am" without any experience whatsoever ?

Are you saying that most people aren't aware that they are? And if I go and ask someone do you exist, they'll say yes without feeling or knowing what the yes means?

Language is just not build to speak about meta. It can only point to something, in this case it is pointing to the awareness that is prior to the experiencing of limited form. This Awareness is absolutely free of any conditioning, but in order to experiencing ITself it must reflect like light on something within the limited form. If this experience is not intervented by any part of the experience, like it happens in a state of pure concentrated equanimity, this awareness is trancending the experience of duality to oneness.

14.39 "We can only be our self knowingly.." !!!

The nature of that I am is suffering.

Perhaps could have taken the mans initial dilemma, when he says "I cannot find anything". And replied, Who is not finding anything? Who is having the experience of not finding anything? Be aware of the one having this experience, and there You are !

But if I am not my sensations, thoughts, perceptions or body, then I don’t speak, and I can ask no questions. Awareness doesn’t label itself or state “I Am” . Is “who am I ?” a trick question ?

Rupert, from what authority can you affirm that your I am is eternal, not born and always present ? And how do you differentiate consciousness from your mind ? Personally, I don't see any difference between the mind and consciousness.

It is totally pointless to find out whether ''I'' am present or not during deep sleep. You see, if I was not present, whatever happened, it didn't exist for me. The moment I fell asleep was just the previous moment to the moment I woke up. The physical brain has to reconstruct, that time must have past while my body slept. This isn't the case for ''I''.

How does ‘ I slept well’ confirm or validate that awareness was present during sleep??? I ask the question since the ‘ I slept well’ could also be a thought or a reaction based on the fact that the body has simply rested and recovered? ‘ I slept well’ cannot really be justified as being absolutely creditable?

Please put your talks and books on Audible, thanks

How do we know there's an experience of absence in deep sleep? You say there is, but I don't know that.

Legend in Português please

I like Rupert. But he seems to be completly wrong here. What started my search again a while after seeing my true nature, was the fear, that this "I am" could also only be an object of perception and not my true identity. My questions were: "Where is "I AM" in deep sleep? Where is it when I am under anaesthetic? I tried like a maniac to perceive the transition from being very tired but conscious to deep sleep and being unconscious over and over again - without success. Honestly, I could not solve this problem independently. It took the help of a "seeing friend" to understand that I was looking at the problem from a completely wrong angle. What is important is not what others say about what happens when you go to sleep. Much more important is how how you experience this "situation". And you experience the the situation like this: Scene 1: You seemingly go to bed,you feel tired, it's dark, you set the alarm clock, you look at the clock one last time, which shows for example 23:00 clock, you switch off the light, and maybe you perceive dreamlike, apparently not quite so solid objects...and then ... it goes on seamlessly in .... Scene 2: It's light, the birds are chirping, the alarm clock rings and shows 06:00 clock and you feel refreshed. The solution is simple: There is nothing between scene 1 and scene 2. There is no such thing as deep sleep or unconsciousness for the first person. Deep sleep or unconsciousness does not exist. What is real never sleeps. The prerequisite for the existence of deep sleep would be that time is real. But that is not the case. Consciousness is alway on. I am also not sure if Rupert himself believes in deep sleep, or if he has just used this as an example to answer the question of the listener.

Rupert is on the edge of frustration with this man. I would be in the middle of frustration! Isn't it obvious you are present? I'm not really sure??? What?? Haha!

"At 6.41..have you ever had the experience that you are nonexistent?NO..agreed...But in deep sleep I had no experience that iam existing also.so in deep sleep ..I exist or I don't exist ..both are not there. Yes? Thus in deep sleep there is no awareness of anything. Aware of itself or not aware of itself. Right? So after death also the same will be the case.. yes.?

He always has the same confused unenlightened people asking him

There are peoples who don't know why they suffer spending their life not knowing who they are. Somehow, i don't know why i'm suffering while ii know that i am.

When I feel depressed is it awareness feeling depressed therefore I am can feel pain?

But if your physical body dies the I am disappears too. If I am does not witness existence then it become nothing more than dust, less than.

What is point man?