The Miracle of Experience | Rupert Spira 

WOW what a gift this guy is thank you!

I’m so glad I found you. Thank you for all your teachings. Can’t believe this one has been here for 5 years already! But I’m happy it finally reached me.

This is so compassionately alive. Thank you!

I have no words to express my gratitude for such a wonderful teaching. 🙏🙏

This was a gift. Deepest gratitude for sharing your insights and love.

It’s sounds like Rupert is a classical guitarist and if so then that was a perfect explanation of the relationship between the student and the method.

This is just like seeing oneself and see that there`s nothing else to look at !! There`s an intoxication which makes every worldly pleasures trivial !!

You know he's right Great teacher, really knows the subject

Beautiful, takes one beyond words and thought.

I always come back to Rupert for the dip into peace that is always there for me. "The Ashes of Love" is my precious piece of him that I treasure just for the opening to any page...and there I AM right there. Lovingly sent as always and forever. Irenee Riter Pleasanton, CA

Beautiful exchanges and messages Rubert. Thank you.

Rupert transforms inquiry into pure joy...😊😊 Very inviting to bring it into your daily life in any activities...😊❤ I have been before in Vipassana it was so much rules to follow asking a lot of discipline and doing, long Meditation hours with as consequences lot of physical pains by sitting on the floor without moving for several hours😅

You are by far, the most eloquent, present, effective, compassionate teacher out there... I have been listening to you for 7 years now, and it just keeps getting deeper and richer and more effective... Thank you Rupert Spira, for the brilliant non duality teacher and gorgeous being that you are....

Love each and every moment! What a brilliantly clear way of explaining the "process" of evolving into more love, understanding and clarity! Every cell in my body is resonating and celebrating! Gratitude and love...

The pure and genuine is clearly present in the Spirit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. If there is one playground where we can experience lasting friendships with ourselves and others, it is in the qualities of the Spirit.

Thank you so much Rupert.... you were the main catalyst for my awakening. Thank you 🙏🏼

I did Vappassana & had a spontaneous awakening. I never went back to my old paradigm. So it did wonders for me & I was in the now like never before. I came out of the retreat like a child. The world became a beautiful place & I wanted to go and live in nature. I previously had no connection to nature.

I found you through Awaken the World Samadhi films, so grateful for your teachings and I find your voice so conforting. Thank you for your work and guidance. Hopefully I will see you in person soon 🙏🌟

British accents are always the best when you're exploring these matters.

"The old man is not there"...must absolutely apply to the so called body as well as a "self". This means that no "dis-ease" or so called physical "problem" can be.

Excellent, thank you so much xx

awareness my spiritual path ... energy my scientific path 💖

Thank you. Every time I listen to this particular talk, I am reminded of the utter surprise and delight of awakening.

This teaching seem like a dream story.

I think this older video has many views simply from age. There is very little of Rupert's teaching in this video, despite the long length. It is long, simply because it is three "questions", whereas later videos separate out each question into a separate video. The subject matter is simply Rupert and his students talking about their experience of doing the practice and taking the seminars. So it is very "meta". Start with one of Rupert's other videos instead.

I'm not ready to settle for this. I've experienced that everything around me was projected inside out from me. But I'm not ready to agree that there's no individuality possible on this most basic level. I think maybe there is. Maybe infinite consciousness, however one, has a fabric of individual cells, or is developing those individual cells of infinite consciousness. Makes sense to me. Who knows? I appreciate any comment on this.

o dia q eu iluminei e hj. gratiiiiissima . San

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What we are...is...Just seeing.

LIBERATION ON STEROIDS!!!! Thank you UNIVERSO, FOR EVER AND EVER GRATEFUL, Thank you TO YOU TO Rupert. The Universe is SPEAKING THROUGH YOU!!

Ah it's the everything, energy condensed at it's physicality, living moving shouting laughing screaming lifeforce when it's psychological and spiritual, beautiful forever changing forever creating communicating, pure imagination that arises from the energy of atom bombs, what is it going to do next, how is this quantised living energy forming art performing.

Rupert is so intimate here.

So the end game...

eye-solating :-)

If you wake up with a headache you might be grinding (and destroying) your teeth during the night.

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This is complete bullshit. It's just making the story of me more complicated.

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear" - thank you so much, Rupert. Thank you.

Whenever I'm losing direction Rupert Spira points me in the right direction again. I'm very grateful to this wonderful teacher.

Often I fall asleep and awaken to the voice of Rupert Spira. Lucky me to have found him by accident on youTube of all places. 💛

I once fell into "madness" and deep sorrow at a 10 day "silent" retreat. I had to leave early. I found the part about silently avoiding other people's eyes to be extremely disturbing. The silence was ok but I did not "grok" the purpose of avoiding eye contact. Sitting silently and eating at tables - sort of together but not. I also became physically ill, did not know why & later realised that I am allergic to tofu. The whole thing was so completely painful - both physically and emotionally. I also learned that my mind is quite extremely delusional and will take all that silence, which is like an empty screen and project on to it all of my past, false assumptions about who my ego thought I was. Finally, I am - right this moment - letting go of the intense grief, guilt and sorrow I had fallen into then - about 17 years ago now. I also remember that the monk complained that we were not sitting below him as we were supposed to be doing so we had to change our way of sitting. I was in so much physical pain and I did not know why. That experience certainly did bring up literally all of my issues but I think I was not ready to deal with so much at once - all alone. I must say that most of the others seemed to be doing fine. I think I was not ready for it as I still I had so much emotional baggage and nobody Intrusted, to help me to deal with it. I too am an artist and I very much resonate with Rupert's description of his artistic experience. I am 75 yrs old now and I am so grateful to have stumbled upon this lovely, compassionate man.

I had been seeking for many years and I cannot express the joy that I found Rupert’s teachings. I finally understand very clearly who I am and am looking forward to listening to him for the rest of my human life and meeting him in person one day. I don’t have to search anymore. What a miracle I am experiencing! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

"Suffering vanishes as a byproduct of this exploration, not as its goal." - RS

No words can describe what this gentle giant of a being has done for many of us. And finally, he has shed light on my many misgivings about silent retreats. So humorously out and so in alignment with our humanity and oneness. Thank you is an understatement Mr Spira.

I could listen to him all day

This just came to mind, that you are a truly worthy successor of Alan Watts. So eloquent, so elegant, so fluid...so clear.

All suffering (of any sort) hinges on the single belief . . . that 'the I' that 'I am' is a separated self.

Life is truly an adventure into infinite consciousness that is always here and now. Wow, the only experience there is. I am this experience. Thank You, RS.

I feel quite happy to find myself starting to understand this 'stuff'. And I me that with the greatest respect.

just as Bashar says..."follow your excitement"...it's really your guide to a happy, full-filled life.

Awesome, uncomparable & unbeatable teaching . Thanks alot. 🙏🙏

Love you Rupert!!

Awesome human being. Awesome insight. Awesome sharing. Awesome outcome. ❤😂🎉

I want to share my method of realization which helped me. I would be happy if even just one man benefited from it. When hurt, or under any feeling, emotion, you must try to feel the I who is hurt. This is the most important. Observe until you can feel it clearly. This is difficult. While observing dont try to stop the feeling of hurt. Then continue observing the I without resisting the feeling of hurt. You will discover that this I is something focused or localized inside. Continue observation. You will find out that this I exist because you identified yourself with hurt. The hurt became alive. You became the hurt. If you continue investigation, you will discover that you are not the hurt, not this I, but this I is inside you. You will be aware of yourself as borderless something (i cannot find a word for that) and this focused I at the same time. And with your will you can stop the identification and the feeling will be stopped also.

There is a teacher for every level of understanding, some of us need far less advanced to have interest or understanding, some a median level, others more advanced. When the student is ready, the teacher appears, because they have been there for you until you come to the point you can recognize them. There will always be such teachers, we just need to grow to the point they can help us go further. These teachers are valuable at all levels, as we usually don't progress without the blessed work of walking each step of the way. The experience of incremental growth can be a wonderful journey we can share together.

All the pieces of my experiences suddenly make sense wow! thank you Rupert for being such a Wonderful teacher and for the beautiful way you articulate and teach- finally get it!! 💕 💕😘

“What we want to become, is the Being that’s already there. “ it’s completely mad! 🙏🙏🙏 I bow to your wisdom Rupert, and send you love and gratitude.

Simply bliss! Ruperts teachings are poetic. Spirit soul nodding yes ! 🙏🏻♥️

“Dancing for no reason.” I love this.

The beauty is in the experience itself, regardless what our interpretation is and if realize it in the moment over and over again, then one can laugh, love and fall in love over and over and over ... I am in love :)

I loved this the most of Rupert's videos

Thank you Rupert and all contributors of great questions... God bless. Love you John 16:33 "I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” 1CORINTHIANS 2:5 "That your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God " Thanks 💕 🙏😘

what are some of the things that helped to build up and keep the 'i' thought intact? surely (as kids) mirrors helped to shrink our boundless awareness down into this 'me', the one that stares back at us in the mirror and who we take ourselves to be. our imagined (mirror) face became fused onto our self concept, and its now so stuck in place that we wear that mirror-face on the inside, resurrecting its hazy image whenever we think of 'self': it seems if we could break that self image apart, that internal locus of identity where the 'i' exists in the form of our imagined face.....then awakening might follow on from that. please talk to us about mirrors and their part in forming our self [-image] and what method might be employed to shatter that self image. i get the feeling that the self concept and the self image are symbiotically attached, and that if the internal (facial) self image could be broken apart, the self identity would lose its main reference point and would be much easier to dissolve. finally, how do You relate to the one who looks back at you in the mirror?

Blessed ❤ Rupert explains what can not be explained so clearly that it is for me a wonder how he is able to do that. Truth spoken by Sages along millennia explained to perfection using a contemporary language. A real blessing for our modern complicated world. Thanks Rupert ❤

Rupert's speeches are Pot-in-a-video... Can't get more relaxed and happier after hearing him...

This man is a BLESSING!!!

understanding suffering is understanding what is wrong,. understanding what is wrong does not awaken what we want in life. this is based on the premise that we do not actually want to suffer but would rather be happy, studying suffering is like hitting yourself in the head in order to see how good it feels when it stops, awakening from a dream is being who you are and knowing that you are complete and awake and no longer can even entertain the idea of dreaming

That is why Rupert insist that meditation is something that we are not something that we do. As soon we turn spirituality into a practice it looses its enjoyment

Amazing, absolutely amazing!! Thank you Universe for allowing me to understand WHO I REALLY AM!!!!!

This makes me laugh - it's so positive, albeit in a subtle way... 'Do what you love to do! - only do that which is interesting & enjoyable!' Yes please!.. So many people would think that 's spoilt and self-indulgent, but it sort of leads into the opposite direction if one's skilful, aware about it.. As I used to reckon as a kid, what do they really know? Maybe nothing!' I didn't quite know that the world is somewhat alienated from its own true Being :)

So so so nice, lovely, no words to describe that how simple made it to others to understand, thank you so much

As I was going up the stair I met a man, who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish, I wish he'd go away. When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldnt see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door. Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today Oh, how I wish he'd stay away

with tears of joy resulting from this wonderful sharing I say a thousand thanks to you Rupert.

सत्यम शिवम सुंदरम Reality Auspicious Beauty Existence Consciousness Aanand

Thank you so much for sharing this, Rupert. ♥

Namaste dear Rupert ! Thank you ! Your talk now maks me Cray , thank you , I am soo happy I am understanding sooo much better ! Blessings to you and outhers . Love from Denmark Thank you

I'm single and I dificulfades to believe that one day marry , poequeme think unattractive and that men do not love me, despite being a dream for me to marry . how to get out of this dilemma , if essese is só ingrained?

~ A Happening An opening. A calling. A servant of coming. Come. Now. Empty. Willing. Naked. I am coming. The harvest is here. Ripe and delicious is the juice. All are invited !! The well is deep. The water pristine. There has always been but 2 choices. Me or the world. I formed you and made you for me. Find Me, and find all. What lies beyond? Me. What do you need? What are you seeking? Me. ~

Exactly. If Reality is just one why can't we just dance together instead of trying to be 'smarter than' the other and plain ruin the entire dance? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xd2nTXsivHs.html - Dance of the Little Swans - Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky Ego is just ego. It does not make the Truth any truer. Ego blinds us and gets one forever stuck in the competitive-mind-game. Competition may help at a certain level when it works as inspiration - relatively speaking it can work as self motivator to excel on an activity but it totally ruins one's game if destroying the other becomes his/her flag, or God. Then you got stuck in your mind in a very petty way and while you resist you won't ever see reality from a broader perspective or view - ever. Ego is about living a fantasy on a stage forever ...and always afraid of what could happen next. That is why some of us need to sarcastically bully or terrorize our audience, isn't it? Even relatively speaking, ego is a fraud....the cameras are supposed to make one's identity more important but ....sorry... only on Planet Ignorance it does - that very same planet that currently BORES YOU TO DEATH and makes you want to spy on people's showers and beds as a last resource entertainment. Sorry if the truth hurts.... The cameras DO NOT make one more real. Sorry again. Blame on the God 'in you' if you need to blame on something, not on your next victim.

Rupert, 06:00 brings to mind Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 'Flow state' theory which we are happiest when intensely focused on what interests us. Also Colin Wilson's teaching about intense focus.

Knock knock Who’s there ? I am I am who ? I am the illusionary voice in yr head that makes u hear Knock knock 😊😊😊 🙏🏼you Rupert ❤

15:00 suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body. Great! But at this point I feel Rupert is leaping into his teaching rather than staying with the metaphor. Because when my hand I feel pain because my hand is in the fire, the pain is advising me to do something about it. When my mind is giving me the signal of suffering I believe it's the same. Rupert suggests just take it as a hint that you are mistaking yourself for a bodymind. But he would not suggest, I am sure, take the pain of the fire as a hint that you have mistaken yourself for a body. He might say take your hand out of the fire AND THEN ponder about this, but he would not dismiss the fire as a real problem that demands action. And so I believe that the suffering actually tells you that there IS something wrong in your life that inflicts psychological or emotional pain onto your mind. Feeling suffering should make you look around and wonder why am I feeling miserable? And maybe you realize that you are being mistreated in a relationship, that you don't like your work, that you have a bad sleeping schedule etc. I am talking about this because these videos which I truly cherish nevertheless often gave me a sense of I am basically just an idiot for my suffering who still just doesn't get how he is not the bodymind.. and this can easily lead to spending all day meditating instead of cleaning up your room for example. Here Rupert would suggest to not meditate if it's not what you would love to do at the moment. But cleaning my room is often also not what I love to do before I start.. I like Ruperts teaching for all the harmony between spirituality and 'normal' everyday life. In this area I am missing the link between the two and feel like he is jumping over the obvious reason the young man was asking his question. Maybe I will change my opinion when listening to the rest of the video, just wanted to pin that down Best regards

You had me at "mad scientist" -- brilliant

thank you.

Superb. Just Great. Rupart just explained in few minutes of my 10 years journey. 🙏❤️

I’m fairly new to these teachings but its all getting more clear .. can someone please explain in what matter our experience in the eternal now suddenly ends? When people and pets leave our existence I’m trying to understand my suffering from loss I truly would appreciate some sort of answer I recently lost my 2 dogs that I love dearly its so hard to believe they were in my mind where they felt so real in my world

"....and that SEEING, will take care of everything else.." and it REALLY does- not just pretty words!

Do psychedelics / best ayahuasca four or five times and you will feel this. Do it with intention not partying and you’ll see enlightenment or at least get a glimpse

"The root of suffering is an illusion of a separate self." - A true stoic would feel no fear of death because he would know that life and the cosmos will continue far beyond his mortal form; however, at first principle, suffering is generated by our physical sense perception - if I put my head on a hot pan, I will feel pain regardless of whether I believe in, for instance, eternal life beyond my own. To deny the reality of pain and suffering in our immediate awareness is to deny the very fabric of our experience, which as he says at the beginning is the only way of knowing that we have in the first place.

The non-existent old man reminds of the Ending to David Lynch's Inland Empire when Laura Dern opens the door to the room with the rabbits and from inside the room it's revealed there is no one there.

I'm not sure how helpful it is to tell people who are suffering that their suffering is a mirage or illusion. It feels a bit like he's diminishing it or minimising. Suffering is very real no matter what mystical language you use to gloss over it

I just can't discribe my experience with your teaching .5hank you

gee i felt like a high or lazy kind of feeling, when you spoke of awareness never being straining, totally lazy.. i get it thank you.

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The area surrounding suffering in this talk opened up my mind to a new understanding, worth watching.

Exactly what I needed to hear. That self discovery doesn't have to be a discipline or a rigorous practice. Just something you feel like doing whenever

I discovered you just 2 days ago and you’re everything that I listen. Thank you.

The miracle of experience. 00:00 to 04:30 Suffering and the root of suffering as the separate self and the ending of suffering as a by-product of the realization of the non-existence of the separate self. 04:30 to 25:00.

I loved every single word, every single smile, every single look, and simply every all of you dear Robert.... Lots of love ❤️ lots of peace 💚 lots of every nice and beautiful thing of life to you🙏🍃🌺💚❤️

Where was this reunion taking place? So peaceful. Wish I was there. Thank you so much for your guidance Rupert.