Silence is the highest teaching. Nothing is there to say about the "I am". You just can't describe awareness with words - it's infinite yet has no space, it lacks nothing yet lacks all objective qualities, it's eternal yet has no time. Words can only arrive at paradoxes in these matters. Just be silent, just be, and in that light all questions dissolve - peace/happiness remains. 🙏
Rupert's approach to the enlightenment question is at a level removed from what the questioner is inquiring about. It may be well and good to say we are all enlightened because we are all conscious but that isn't what the questioner is interested in. His question is really asking, what about ignorance, what about fear, what about the separate self? To see oneself as an individual and separate is ignorance, to see the unity of all being is enlightenment. To live in fear of death is ignorance, to see life and death as phases of being is enlightenment. Simply being conscious does not remove ignorance, fear, or the sense of being a separate self. Yes, we all have being but if that being is subject to the above, then enlightenment, the overcoming of ignorance, fear and the separate self will remain as a goal for the individual and not something one is gifted with simply by being born.
Enlightenment - Experiencing deeply and profoundly Oneness/Unity/Perfect Love -the essence of God - in every moment. Permanent freedom from the experience of fear, negativity, suffering, separation, an inner sense of lack. Experiencing one's true nature all the time.
This is very bizarre that Rupert has switched to the “nothing to do, you are already enlightened” camp. Awakening (aka enlightenment) is a real phenomenon. The opposite of it is an almost continuous mechanism of the mind which creates a suffering character. Let's say your name is Tom, the unawakened state is where thought is almost continuously shouting the following set of connected ideas : I am Tom and there is something wrong (something wrong with the past, something here and now, or something in the future). Tom then suffers. This mechanism can collapse through continuous inquiry (in the right way). Once gone, thought still functions but there is no longer the compulsive creation of the “I am Tom - something is wrong” dream. What is left is continuous peace, happiness and functional intelligence. Just intellectually understanding that Tom is not real or going through the exercise the questioner was taken through isn’t gonna do anything for anyone - other than being entertained and maybe feeling good for 2 minutes. I will bet a $ million that the questioner, after leaving the meeting, went back to being his normal, suffering self. That is, even if he had dropped Tom for a few seconds during Rupert’s questioning (even this is not likely, most likely Tom just temporarily accepted Rupert’s feel good ideas and words) he picked up Tom again 30 seconds later when Rupert moved onto the next person and the questioner started day dreaming about his past present and future problems. Stable awakening, which is the only worthwhile goal in all of this, is the continuous absence of “I am Tom - there is something wrong”. Even if it does arise it is very quickly seen to be false, nothing more than a day dream. Awakening IS possible. It IS different than the normal human state. And no, not everyone sitting in that room is awake. If that were the case, they would have zero reason to be at the meeting. They would be somewhere else living life joyously. Anthony if you read this, please contact me. I think I can be of some help. I have been exactly where you are. A quick note: it is true that Tom cannot wake up. It is awareness that wakes up OUT OF Tom. But it is not correct to say that awareness is already awakened out of characters (Tom, Jim, Sally, whatever your name is) in all humans everywhere. It is also not true to say that nothing can be done to awaken. It requires a continuous inquiry which must be done during daily living. No amount of philosophizing about it, attending satsangs, asking questions (unless they are specifically about how to inquire properly and continuously) is going to get you there. It just doesn't work that way. Principle number one in all of this, which has been talked about for thousands of years, is that you CANNOT *think* your way to awakening, you cannot "figure it out'. In fact, incessant thinking is the barrier.
@@OGRedRider hi Jason. Tried 6 or 7 times to leave a message letting you know how to get in touch with me. All were deleted. Possibly by a UA-cam algorithm. Possibly by a human moderator of the channel.
@@OGRedRider yes every time I try to state a contact method directly or even just point to where to find, the message gets deleted. I’ll try to state it in a way that the algorithm should not pick up: “move attention to name and follow trail from there” lol
@@brianlittrell797 Our thoughts can cloud our perception of what we are essentially are, but just like clouds in the sky they are only a temporary veiling of the ever present sky of awareness behind them. As someone who has a habit of getting lost in thought, I empathise with your question. Thoughts can be very powerful, just like a great story. But if you begin to observe your thoughts in the same way you would watch a story in a movie, you may find some freedom from them.
Thank you for your kind response. My thoughts are sometimes like a horror movie or horror story. Difficult to watch or be with. And then some of them are very appealing, entertaining and enjoyable to think. Very seductive.@@CurtisSpiers
I would love to be able to help you with words but I’m not sure I am able to. For me it was not a “light bulb” moment but rather came about slowly through many years of searching and deep listening, then realising that my peace and happiness was the place from which I was searching from. So I stopped looking and it was beautiful. Some beings come to it by way of deep suffering and pain, some just by simply being. I would add that I think you cannot realise it with your mind but rather with your heart, but even that falls short of what I would try to convey. I wish you peace love and joy. ❤️
'The true teacher... will not imprison his disciple in a prescribed set of ideas, feelings and actions; on the contrary, he will show him patiently the need to be free from all ideas and set patterns of behavior, to be vigilant and earnest and go with life wherever it takes him, not to enjoy or suffer, but to understand and learn... Satsang, the company of the noble, does not moult, it liberates. Beware of all that makes you dependent.'' - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Whether or not enlightenment exists, we recognize that we can experience our ‘being’ with greater appreciation and greater capacity to navigate through this wonderful experience of living…so we may open beyond the doors of ego habituation…and make our time go well. Incidentally, over 25 years ago I had a dream which ‘told me’ just be💫 PS self inquiry is a valid effort to understand our bio psycho socio conditioning that underlies and constricts mind. We can invite cosmic mind to clarify the matter ✨
There is about a 0% chance that Swami Sarvapriyananda isn't realized, he's just super humble.. fairly deceptive in his powers as well. Probably up there for top 3 teachers alive right now, IMO!
You have said it all..... indeed 0% chance for him not to be. He is 150% enlightened and always wants to fit it so that seekers can have that idea towards enlightenment. Even though Rupert says it's just TO BE, we just can't unless we enter into samadhi and experience the ONENESS of being. There's a need to know and realise that Self which seems covered by ignorance within and without by maya respectively. Live it and be it. The sword of knowledge is essential here to dispel this ignorance ❤❤❤
Love this speech by rupert and the beautiful young man when he laughed and said I love it, it was almost as if he had just realised what rupert was saying. Lovely.
It’s even more simple than that. We are all already enlightened, like the sun is always shining. But the activity of the mind obscures it, like clouds block the sun. When the mind is still and clear, enlightenment shines.
We also are never obscured since we are already and always the bright luminous ever-present sun of being, never obscured or enlightened by the mind-body-world.
Yes, he gets it!!! No fix, no learn, no spiritual journeys. You are an expression of the divine, that of the almighty of all that is, and by definition you are GOD (the source that creates everything, the universe, the multiverses, you, the infinite, EVERYTHING) you are PERFECT in your divine, step out of your way and you wont be lost in the ILLusions of your mind of not being enlightened, you are and always have been enlightened, you just dont remember, transcend this human experience JUST BE 🙏
I like that Rupert addresses the myth of enlightenment. I wish more would follow his example. No need for spiritual practice, no path, discipline etc. Just being this; no me in it.
@@macaroon147 Enlightenment means different things to many people and hence the confusion. Rupert is pointing out that it isn’t some extraordinary experience at the end of some lengthy spiritual practice. Imo, enlightenment is the wrong word for simply being without the illusion of a separate self but it’s preferable to the former.
Namaste Rupert Spira 🙏🏻 What an apt question & precise answer ! Truly enlightening … The questioner mentioned Swami Sarvapriyanandaji to whom I follow 🙏🏻
Maglite (to Spotlight): "Who's bright?" Spotlight: "You're all lights, so yeah" Christmas Tree Decorations: "Yeah, what he said, it's obvious, I love it!" Forgotten Darkness: "It's all relative. To me"
Enlightenment can come in various ways - it can come as a mind-blowing experience which immediately transforms our perception of the SOURCE of BEING and our previous intellectual understanding of the world. Or - through persistent study of the Christ Letters, A Course In Miracles and A Course Of Love, little moments of extraordinary insight, little times of illumining shafts of LIGHT will enter our mind which will shift the focus of our inner sight - or clear the lens through which we see the world and judge the validity of all its opinions and beliefs. But True Enlightenment is the inflow of Universal Consciousness (God) into our human consciousness which we will never lose and which permanently transforms our attitudes to the Creator and life generally. Gradually, we shed the illusions which previously blinded us and we find ourselves gaining mastery of our mind and actions, leading to wholeness in every aspect of our individual being. Walking the CHRIST WAY - as set out in the Christ Letters, A Course In Miracles and A Course Of Love - is a lifetime work leading directly to freedom from anxiety and want. As we read, we will find in them the Presence of Jesus and the Love of Jesus.
My question is that I am very aware that it’s awareness in which experience rises it’s the awareness that makes me realize who I am it’s the awareness that makes experience suffering so what causes us to be blissful being aware? What makes us separate from every experience we have it seems to only become stronger - When I am more aware I feel the suffering of my old parents more intensely than not, I feel every nuance of my heart beat more… at what point of being aware can I keep myself separated from experience - isn’t that enlightenment? And Rupert did not overnight get enlightened to this it took him years of Sadhana and study and practice to get enlightened? If that foundation was not there could he be where he is now and would the direct path have made sense to him? Humbly asking the questions for my progress
You are awareness itself! Realizing. " who you are " is a thought in your mind of a separate self with a story and personality with all the suffering attached to this. Awareness can not suffer or have a story etc. It is the ever present never changing observer. The bliss comes in the realization that you are and have always been awareness. It has always been this way. It got lost in the story of your separate self identity.
I love Rupert. He is amazing and he’s definitely awakened, but unfortunately his degree of attainment is not the final goal. It’s complicated. There’s so much more to it that Rupert doesn’t speak about. I think it is because he doesn’t know, but there’s more. He never talks about purification and that’s the crux of what is missing. Keep trying.
I think the enlightenment or realization that seekers are wanting would be the second stage of realization in his video 'Are there stages of Enlightenment' from few years back, unless he no longer thinks it is valid or applicable or realistic now. This would be the realization that awareness is not bound by limits of the body and time, hence we do not die when the body dies, etc... I am curious why Rupert left this part out in his reply.
This young guy already knows conceptually the steps towards awakening elaborated by Rupert. This radical answer from Rupert is just the natural evolution of its teaching. Now there is almost no concession made to the separate inside self. Some people, like I think it's the case for this young guy, are in desperate needs of listening to a radical answer such like this one gave by Rupert. Don't forget that Rupert answer IN THE MOMENT. So he feels where the questioner is and always personalize its answer. So I think it's very good that Rupert doesn't mechanically answer this question. I notice that Rupert is way more radical than before. That's a good thing for its old followerss that his teaching has evolved, otherwise we run the risk of getting identified with its very enticing, parsimonious and elegant model of reality (Consciousness-only model), which in almost all cases, if understand conceptually and tested out in our life, puts an effortless, natural end to the disruptive thinking mind in behalf of a separate self.
Enlightened beings have many siddhis, mundane and supreme Siddhis, they can help many beings in many ways and knows what is best in each moment, they are rare indeed able to see past, future and to know everything ... where many " enlightened " people out there do not know even the complexity of advanced mathematics , cosmology, physics or biology.
The infinite consciousness. Let's name as the only MIND. This MIND is both present, knows it's present, and aware. The MIND's activity localizes itself to spawn the separate self. much like how you in your dream state, you create a world, and all it's characters... also you yourself are present in your dream as an individual... losing your true self. and in this dream, you are a separate individual... although the whole creation is from your mind. Similarly, the thought of you as a separate individual is MIND losing itself as a separate entity in the entire creation of it's own world. Enlightenment is knowing this truth and decondition the mind of it's assumed perception. or in other terms overcoming "Maya", the illusory self. When the MIND withdraws from all it's local self, only awareness remains without any condition, that is Samadhi. That's my understanding. 🙏
All you have to do is just sit there and be. That is what Ramana did from 16 years old. Ramana came to know of himself as being the Atman and stopped identifying with his body. He came to that awareness in one afternoon while contemplating death. That's all anyone needs to do. Just realize that you are the soul and stop identifying with physical form and just sit there and be. The reason people aren't enlightened is because they don't want to do what it takes to be enlightened. Ramana realized the truth and then just sat. Buddha found enlightenment and just sat. Give up every attachment realizing your true nature, realizing the Self. Then just sit as Ramana and Buddha did and it is guaranteed you will realize the nature of your existence. Each one of us is a particle of the infinite God/Spirit and God is fully and wholly present within each particle. The whole of existence and creation is within us because everything is within God and God is within each and every piece. The Absolute is found within the relative. The infinite is found within the finite. Everything exists within infinite light and we are that light.
I get Spira's argument and logic here and maybe it is actually the better one than the instant surprise recognition that occurs without any seeking, out of the blue. That seems different and is what the seekers are looking for, but not realising they already are it. Maybe it's the nature of the realisation, a strong one vs. a weak one. In other words, Spira may not be triggered easily by what is happening around him but those in the class/seekers may be. So the old habits, egoic habits, etc. arise and Being is forgotten.
I prefer Aaron Abke to Rupert but that is just my personal taste. Rupert is very good but I think Aaron is a better teacher and more broad and deep in his understanding.@@erick_warrior
In my personal experience, when I was being severely abused in a sick and disabled body, the Higher Power or Consciousness or whatever you want to call it, ripped me off of my body and I became aware of being a sparkle of Light in a white luminescent space. Once back into my body, I understood that everything is energy and that sparkle of Light was my pure Essence, namely just a fragment of the Universal Consciousness. There is only One Source and we and everything else are just a mere expression of it. It is an energetic vibrational world where by just being we get everything we have always wanted from our heart. Doing is an expression of the human ego which has a tendency to control everything because we are afraid to let go. The entire concept of civilization, education and history is a product of our imagination as space and time do not exist. But worry not as even the individual self is an illusion: it's just Source playing hide and seek with itself however, the creation of dualism was necessary to play this game called life. Welcome home everyone! 🏡🤗💖
It’s not an enlightenment. Its a wrong word to use. Probably was misinterpreted from its original language. It’s a realization that one is Simply Is and already Perfect, Whole & Complete. Nothing else is needed. Just trust & let go. Grace Does The Work. 🙏🏻✨
I would like to see enlightened beings getting together like Rupert, Francis Lucille, Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, etc. and share their own ideas together. That would be interesting and fascinating.
It takes balls to archive enlightenement and alot of effort daily training and meditation and after it dealing with the sad realisations of human nature, I think what enlightenment truly is is that our minds are some kind of Super Computer Software that runs through our brains and when u somehow get energy in your head conciouness can rewritte it then enlightenment happens activating trillions of braincells that were sleeping before u become closer to god
Statements like ‘you’re already enlightened’ or ‘you’re already it’, although fundamentally correct, they are, for all practical purposes, absolutely unsustainable and therefore, impractical. The questioner started promising but gave in. Siddhartha Gotama would have laughed at this conversation to no end 😂
Also funny how RS now realizes that what he did 5 years ago promoting Self inquiry actually made things worse. It’s better to actually leave people alone rather than ‘try to help’ (ego). Better not make things worse and then revert back to correct the wrong and say to them to ‘just be’ 😂. You’re not doing a service to humanity. This is all Ego…
@@blissfull8274 any tool can be usefull, or useless or worse than nothing, depending on each person or situation; there is no way to come to a conclusion, a right path and all that kind of things
@@marjorie6021 We can’t agree more. People always do the ‘right’ thing depending on their situations. Leave them alone. Interfering/helping is the ego of the helper.
@@blissfull8274I’m very disappointed by what I just saw. Rupert is now in the same camp as Tony Parsons - “nothing to do, you are already enlightened”. But please keep coming to my talks.
I guess you know better than Ramana Maharshi - considering that he taught self-inquiry and it been helpful and effective for many. RS never said or implied it made things worse. That is your assumption and misperception.@@blissfull8274
Rupert is absolutely right. By the way, at the recent World Yoga Festival a woman asked Swami Sarvapriyananda a question that began "You said to me yesterday before the talk that you consider Rupert Spira to be self-realised..."
I have a question about the I am sense. When I go to the sense I am, I have a strong feeling of me as a person with all my story an personal circumstances, and as a result I feel a strong feeling of separation. I can not recoginze myself as awareness, and also I can not clearly see or feel Im not these person or this ego. Ive been fighting with this question for years.
I havent perceived non-seperation before. But when I do self enquiry I find myself resting in what feels like a complete openess, there is an underlying peace and joy that doesn't run out. So from what I understand, this is my true nature and all that is to be done is just to rest in it more and more until it becomes my predominant state. Infact it already feels much more sober and natural to how I was living before. Like I said I haven't had a shift in perception yet, but why does that matter if I am already feeling peace and joy resting in "I am". Don't get me wrong though, intense emotions do come up and the I do emotion work where I allow the emotion/sensations. Trust your intuition man. Maybe take a break from this stuff if you feel like you're searching for too long or forcing something
For starters, if you are recognizing the person and it's story you're already aware of that :) Those are thoughts. So if you are recognizing them as thoughts than you are aware of the thoughts. Keep being willing to surrender. You'll be fine. Don't overthink it or analyze it. Move to your emotions, your sensations and your perceptions. You'll recognize the true Self soon enough.
I think there is this real "i am", pure being experience, but immediatly the "i thought" grabs it and says "it's me, i am that and i have a body a life and all that"
The person (the character) can tell himself “I am I am” over and over without getting anywhere. Rupert’s instruction to just leave it at that or just be and forget about enlightenment is very misleading. You are very right in that the whole point of this is to SEE that the person is not real. Actually see it and know it. Not just believe it theoretically. Simultaneous to seeing that the person is not real is the seeing that the circumstances are not real.
I highly disagree with rupert Spira.. Aware of Being leads you to something much deeper.. Then there are other stuck as teachers... Rupert would have to let go being a teacher to go deeper. The theatrics of letting go the initial one so to speak is not the full way
i see it more as an state like ebb and flow and it can be defined afterwards, when we reflect memories and how we develop and gain more wisdom. Its not something i witnessed in the present moment like a natural high or something. For some reason, conciousness filters a lot of informations in our current society. Anyway, nothing to chase, we are complete and already the version we want to be. i let go and life will take care. The only thing i dont want to break is my moral compass, which would hurt me more than the external world. Marcus Aurelius said something like this and thats my mindset to everything that exist.
Once a Zen Master asked, _"SK Sum, are you enlightened?"_ SK Sum replied, _"Sir, SK Sum doesn't know. He doesn't know eventhough he's enlightened because he doesn't know what is enlightenment?"_ The Master laughed loudly, clapped his hands, and said, _"SK Sum, now we can drink tea together!"_ 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
There maybe 7 (or 8) levels of consciousness. 1. Dreamless sleep. 2. Dreaming sleep. 3. The waking state which has a train of thought. 4. The meditative state being a state of restful alertness and without a train of thought. 5. Bliss consciousness is a state of thought in which the ego is lost during meditation and a state of joy prevails after. 6. Nirvana (Pass) 7. God consciousness is a sense of infinite expansion or boundlessness. It can be triggered by the "night terrors" of childhood during meditation. 8. Death consciousness. This is speculative as no one returns to tell the tale, but is probably stirred and reborn since nothing is ever destroyed. "Enlightenment" may be one or all of these states, all of them or none of them and they may be in the wrong order. I favour the seventh.
Imagine a road without beginning or end, there can be no bridge of enlightenment, no before and no after, how could I ever say that I had crossed that bridge, reached a point beyond change, how can we measure infinity, how could I even say that I move, how could I ever imagine I could change , a road without beginning or end has no marker, no time, no matter how fast or slow I seem to move I do not move at all beyond the change of which I see.
Enlightenment is knowing the nature of reality and your place, as a human being on planet earth, within the universe. Avoid sophistry and study science instead.
We're all just souls living an human experience and to learn. Most people in the world have achieved 1 of the 3 achievements: spiritual awakinging. If people leveled up spiritually then they would be capable of the 3 achievements. Most people in the world have one or two achievements but no one has reached one of them which is leveling up the soul. God exist, the universe exists, the deities in each mythology exist, time exists at the same time doesn't, there's a pattern with the dimensions, there was once two gods, the story of creation in every in place all happened at the same time, ect. The souls journey when learning is a pattern of construction,deconstruction,and reconstruction of anything and everything. Everything is connected in some way, shape, or form.
Just 'be' . Let go of those conceptual's. Those souls, spirits, truths, minds, etc... & the be-liefs, be-comes, be-ings, be-wares, etc.. etc... By default, enlightenment appears and shows 'lighten' or even 'light'. ego is simply NOW, 'go' and spontaneous. 👂
Words are dubious representations of what reality isn’t enclosed in bubble wrap. Words create conundrums, contradictions, pimples, and mental compost. Enlightenment, not enlightened. and yet, without words, we can't confuse minds. If you enjoy ALL that is life, if you have no way life MUST go to be blissed out, you are a light bulb.
The whole bunch of very likeable and intelligent people who teache us happiness are NOT enlightened. Is it not somewhat like a cook who teaches us how to make a delicious meal saying: "OK, I don't know how to cook but, ya know, we all keep ourselves busy so grab the utensils and saucepans and what not, and just keep going"? Rather disheartening. Sri Ramana spent all his life. What about Ramakrishna with his going into the bliss of Samadhi on the cue? With all due respect, if one tried and aspired for enlightment -- and didn't we all? and failed, one would say something like esteemed lecturer here, i.e. this is kinda not the point, the point is that, etc., etc., etc.
realizing that you are Supreme Energy in the beyond is enlightenment..its not easy to realize This..i seriously dont understand why hes not telling you that..i usually promote rupert spira, but not anymore...your not enlightened until you literally know that you are just this energy when there is no content..you have to see yourSelf as literally the Original Face..the world will disappear..
You usually promote Rupert Spira? LOL. But not anymore because he messed up in this video right? He didn't really seem to help the man in this video either.
@@brianlittrell797 i do..i usually like what rupert spira says..but i've come to the conclusion that he may be self-realizied but hes not liberated..he's not god-realized..what the difference? self-realized beings havent actually gone beyond while god-realizied being have...what is *gone beyond* ..the world literally disappears..the everything and the nothing literally disappears..its more exotic than drinking tea that rupert seems to suggest...
Rupert is assuming that the questioner is "already" Enlightened just because he can describe it. Non Sequitur not matching various Sages. Just because he says "I love it" has nothing to do with Enlightenment. Spira has lapsed into a form of Neo-Advaita, pioneered by HWL Poonja.
To get there... One must do the work. I totally disagree with this . That you are already whole and complete and all that... Yes, it's true. BUT you are full of illusion and confusion too and that needs to settle first.
Enlightenment is experiencing deeply and profoundly Oneness/Unity/Perfect Love - the essence of God - in every moment. It is permanent freedom from the experience of fear, negativity, suffering, separation and an inner sense of lack. It is experiencing one's true nature/divine nature all the time.@@HopefulTarnished
People want to be free from suffering and always experiencing peace, joy, love and freedom - which is their true nature. Another reason might be to have super powers.
@@LifesInsight i,m not searching enlightenment it just happened... its al about knowing that ego is an illusion ... ego tricks your mind in endless... I...I...I...thoughts....
Enlightenment is not the freedom of a person but it is the freedom of consciousness from the person 🙏
I really felt this. Thx🥰
@@joajoajb oh, blah, blah, blah🤭. If that suits you, than, great! 💖
@@joajoajb more blah blah blah! Go back to your books and enjoy your conscious enlightment 😉
@@joajoajb Dear friend, your whole understanding is based on your thinking....So plz , have an experience first and then argue with me 🙏
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Silence is the highest teaching. Nothing is there to say about the "I am". You just can't describe awareness with words - it's infinite yet has no space, it lacks nothing yet lacks all objective qualities, it's eternal yet has no time. Words can only arrive at paradoxes in these matters. Just be silent, just be, and in that light all questions dissolve - peace/happiness remains. 🙏
Rupert's approach to the enlightenment question is at a level removed from what the questioner is inquiring about. It may be well and good to say we are all enlightened because we are all conscious but that isn't what the questioner is interested in. His question is really asking, what about ignorance, what about fear, what about the separate self? To see oneself as an individual and separate is ignorance, to see the unity of all being is enlightenment. To live in fear of death is ignorance, to see life and death as phases of being is enlightenment. Simply being conscious does not remove ignorance, fear, or the sense of being a separate self. Yes, we all have being but if that being is subject to the above, then enlightenment, the overcoming of ignorance, fear and the separate self will remain as a goal for the individual and not something one is gifted with simply by being born.
Enlightenment - Experiencing deeply and profoundly Oneness/Unity/Perfect Love -the essence of God - in every moment. Permanent freedom from the experience of fear, negativity, suffering, separation, an inner sense of lack. Experiencing one's true nature all the time.
'Rupert's approach to the enlightenment question is at a level removed from what the questioner is inquiring about.' Indeed.
With tears in my eyes….. such a beautiful Talk.🤧
There is nothing to get, there is just what is, eternally. Tune in tomorrow for another reminder.
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This is very bizarre that Rupert has switched to the “nothing to do, you are already enlightened” camp. Awakening (aka enlightenment) is a real phenomenon. The opposite of it is an almost continuous mechanism of the mind which creates a suffering character. Let's say your name is Tom, the unawakened state is where thought is almost continuously shouting the following set of connected ideas : I am Tom and there is something wrong (something wrong with the past, something here and now, or something in the future). Tom then suffers. This mechanism can collapse through continuous inquiry (in the right way). Once gone, thought still functions but there is no longer the compulsive creation of the “I am Tom - something is wrong” dream. What is left is continuous peace, happiness and functional intelligence. Just intellectually understanding that Tom is not real or going through the exercise the questioner was taken through isn’t gonna do anything for anyone - other than being entertained and maybe feeling good for 2 minutes. I will bet a $ million that the questioner, after leaving the meeting, went back to being his normal, suffering self. That is, even if he had dropped Tom for a few seconds during Rupert’s questioning (even this is not likely, most likely Tom just temporarily accepted Rupert’s feel good ideas and words) he picked up Tom again 30 seconds later when Rupert moved onto the next person and the questioner started day dreaming about his past present and future problems. Stable awakening, which is the only worthwhile goal in all of this, is the continuous absence of “I am Tom - there is something wrong”. Even if it does arise it is very quickly seen to be false, nothing more than a day dream. Awakening IS possible. It IS different than the normal human state. And no, not everyone sitting in that room is awake. If that were the case, they would have zero reason to be at the meeting. They would be somewhere else living life joyously. Anthony if you read this, please contact me. I think I can be of some help. I have been exactly where you are. A quick note: it is true that Tom cannot wake up. It is awareness that wakes up OUT OF Tom. But it is not correct to say that awareness is already awakened out of characters (Tom, Jim, Sally, whatever your name is) in all humans everywhere. It is also not true to say that nothing can be done to awaken. It requires a continuous inquiry which must be done during daily living. No amount of philosophizing about it, attending satsangs, asking questions (unless they are specifically about how to inquire properly and continuously) is going to get you there. It just doesn't work that way. Principle number one in all of this, which has been talked about for thousands of years, is that you CANNOT *think* your way to awakening, you cannot "figure it out'. In fact, incessant thinking is the barrier.
Brilliant, thank you !
I’m not Anthony, but I share Anthony’s problem. Please, if you know a better way, send it!
@@OGRedRider hi Jason. Tried 6 or 7 times to leave a message letting you know how to get in touch with me. All were deleted. Possibly by a UA-cam algorithm. Possibly by a human moderator of the channel.
@@manntrevor80 that’s bizarre, I can see this message just fine
@@OGRedRider yes every time I try to state a contact method directly or even just point to where to find, the message gets deleted. I’ll try to state it in a way that the algorithm should not pick up: “move attention to name and follow trail from there” lol
"You are Present, Whole, Perfect and Complete" 🙏💚
I don't know.... I don't seem to be present. I seem to be absent.
@@brianlittrell797 If you are aware of the feeling of absence, how are you not present?
So what happens when one gets lost in thoughts? What is that? And why does that happen?@@CurtisSpiers
@@brianlittrell797 Our thoughts can cloud our perception of what we are essentially are, but just like clouds in the sky they are only a temporary veiling of the ever present sky of awareness behind them. As someone who has a habit of getting lost in thought, I empathise with your question.
Thoughts can be very powerful, just like a great story. But if you begin to observe your thoughts in the same way you would watch a story in a movie, you may find some freedom from them.
Thank you for your kind response. My thoughts are sometimes like a horror movie or horror story. Difficult to watch or be with. And then some of them are very appealing, entertaining and enjoyable to think. Very seductive.@@CurtisSpiers
Call off the search, you are already what you are looking for. ❤️
How to realise that? Can you please tell me? Thanks in advance❤
I would love to be able to help you with words but I’m not sure I am able to. For me it was not a “light bulb” moment but rather came about slowly through many years of searching and deep listening, then realising that my peace and happiness was the place from which I was searching from. So I stopped looking and it was beautiful. Some beings come to it by way of deep suffering and pain, some just by simply being. I would add that I think you cannot realise it with your mind but rather with your heart, but even that falls short of what I would try to convey. I wish you peace love and joy. ❤️
@@discokev100thank you for your kind gesture
Rupert , your words are pure, natural, sacred wisdom! Just to ear them i feel myself deeply happy and full in the love of being!
Thank you so much...
'The true teacher... will not imprison his disciple in a prescribed set of ideas, feelings and actions; on the contrary, he will show him patiently the need to be free from all ideas and set patterns of behavior, to be vigilant and earnest and go with life wherever it takes him, not to enjoy or suffer, but to understand and learn...
Satsang, the company of the noble, does not moult, it liberates.
Beware of all that makes you dependent.''
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Being is ... full and open at the same time.
Like the way a house can be full and open at the same time. Full of stuff but all the doors are open.
Whether or not enlightenment exists, we recognize that we can experience our ‘being’ with greater appreciation and greater capacity to navigate through this wonderful experience of living…so we may open beyond the doors of ego habituation…and make our time go well.
Incidentally, over 25 years ago I had a dream which ‘told me’ just be💫
PS self inquiry is a valid effort to understand our bio psycho socio conditioning that underlies and constricts mind. We can invite cosmic mind to clarify the matter ✨
There is about a 0% chance that Swami Sarvapriyananda isn't realized, he's just super humble.. fairly deceptive in his powers as well. Probably up there for top 3 teachers alive right now, IMO!
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You have said it all..... indeed 0% chance for him not to be. He is 150% enlightened and always wants to fit it so that seekers can have that idea towards enlightenment. Even though Rupert says it's just TO BE, we just can't unless we enter into samadhi and experience the ONENESS of being.
There's a need to know and realise that Self which seems covered by ignorance within and without by maya respectively. Live it and be it.
The sword of knowledge is essential here to dispel this ignorance ❤❤❤
Actually he said in a few videos of his that he isn't realized.
@@shinrinyokumusic1808 hmm, I wonder why he would say that 😉
Love this speech by rupert and the beautiful young man when he laughed and said I love it, it was almost as if he had just realised what rupert was saying. Lovely.
We can experience our inner being, it is moving, it is hiding. And we can only recognise it through meditation.
This is a belief, not truth
This might be the most concise, affirmative lesson from Rupert. Wow
It’s even more simple than that. We are all already enlightened, like the sun is always shining. But the activity of the mind obscures it, like clouds block the sun. When the mind is still and clear, enlightenment shines.
We also are never obscured since we are already and always the bright luminous ever-present sun of being, never obscured or enlightened by the mind-body-world.
Yes, he gets it!!! No fix, no learn, no spiritual journeys. You are an expression of the divine, that of the almighty of all that is, and by definition you are GOD (the source that creates everything, the universe, the multiverses, you, the infinite, EVERYTHING) you are PERFECT in your divine, step out of your way and you wont be lost in the ILLusions of your mind of not being enlightened, you are and always have been enlightened, you just dont remember, transcend this human experience JUST BE 🙏
I have never come across this clarity as rupert gives. Love you the most, my teacher ❤❤❤
I like that Rupert addresses the myth of enlightenment. I wish more would follow his example. No need for spiritual practice, no path, discipline etc. Just being this; no me in it.
it's not a myth there are many testimonies of enlightenment
@@dwarfman78 Yeh right 😅
do you experience perfect and everlasting peace with no thoughts?
Ofcourse it exists. Its our true nature. He's just trying to put across that it's nothing exotic and completely ordinary
@@macaroon147 Enlightenment means different things to many people and hence the confusion. Rupert is pointing out that it isn’t some extraordinary experience at the end of some lengthy spiritual practice. Imo, enlightenment is the wrong word for simply being without the illusion of a separate self but it’s preferable to the former.
Namaste Rupert Spira 🙏🏻
What an apt question & precise answer !
Truly enlightening …
The questioner mentioned Swami Sarvapriyanandaji to whom I follow 🙏🏻
To paraphrase: ‘It’s not who I am, it’s who I’ve come to understand that YOU are.’ Love it.
Oh, I love this! I really love this! Thank you, Rupert!
Powerful. Direct. Clear. Simple. And maybe why I shed a tear. Beautiful. Thank you Rupert
My word, this is beautiful. This got me there. Fear is released.
Jesus gave his live in the Cross for teaching us that we (ALL) are the son of God. This was his way to say that we all are enlightened beings.
Maglite (to Spotlight): "Who's bright?"
Spotlight: "You're all lights, so yeah"
Christmas Tree Decorations: "Yeah, what he said, it's obvious, I love it!"
Forgotten Darkness: "It's all relative. To me"
'There is no contradiction between being and the process of becoming.'
Enlightenment can come in various ways - it can come as a mind-blowing experience which immediately transforms our perception of the SOURCE of BEING and our previous intellectual understanding of the world. Or - through persistent study of the Christ Letters, A Course In Miracles and A Course Of Love, little moments of extraordinary insight, little times of illumining shafts of LIGHT will enter our mind which will shift the focus of our inner sight - or clear the lens through which we see the world and judge the validity of all its opinions and beliefs.
But True Enlightenment is the inflow of Universal Consciousness (God) into our human consciousness which we will never lose and which permanently transforms our attitudes to the Creator and life generally.
Gradually, we shed the illusions which previously blinded us and we find ourselves gaining mastery of our mind and actions, leading to wholeness in every aspect of our individual being.
Walking the CHRIST WAY - as set out in the Christ Letters, A Course In Miracles and A Course Of Love - is a lifetime work leading directly to freedom from anxiety and want.
As we read, we will find in them the Presence of Jesus and the Love of Jesus.
My question is that I am very aware that it’s awareness in which experience rises it’s the awareness that makes me realize who I am it’s the awareness that makes experience suffering so what causes us to be blissful being aware? What makes us separate from every experience we have it seems to only become stronger - When I am more aware I feel the suffering of my old parents more intensely than not, I feel every nuance of my heart beat more… at what point of being aware can I keep myself separated from experience - isn’t that enlightenment? And Rupert did not overnight get enlightened to this it took him years of Sadhana and study and practice to get enlightened? If that foundation was not there could he be where he is now and would the direct path have made sense to him? Humbly asking the questions for my progress
You are awareness itself! Realizing. " who you are " is a thought in your mind of a separate self with a story and personality with all the suffering attached to this. Awareness can not suffer or have a story etc. It is the ever present never changing observer. The bliss comes in the realization that you are and have always been awareness. It has always been this way. It got lost in the story of your separate self identity.
I love Rupert. He is amazing and he’s definitely awakened, but unfortunately his degree of attainment is not the final goal. It’s complicated. There’s so much more to it that Rupert doesn’t speak about. I think it is because he doesn’t know, but there’s more. He never talks about purification and that’s the crux of what is missing. Keep trying.
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I think the enlightenment or realization that seekers are wanting would be the second stage of realization in his video 'Are there stages of Enlightenment' from few years back, unless he no longer thinks it is valid or applicable or realistic now. This would be the realization that awareness is not bound by limits of the body and time, hence we do not die when the body dies, etc... I am curious why Rupert left this part out in his reply.
This young guy already knows conceptually the steps towards awakening elaborated by Rupert. This radical answer from Rupert is just the natural evolution of its teaching. Now there is almost no concession made to the separate inside self. Some people, like I think it's the case for this young guy, are in desperate needs of listening to a radical answer such like this one gave by Rupert. Don't forget that Rupert answer IN THE MOMENT. So he feels where the questioner is and always personalize its answer. So I think it's very good that Rupert doesn't mechanically answer this question. I notice that Rupert is way more radical than before. That's a good thing for its old followerss that his teaching has evolved, otherwise we run the risk of getting identified with its very enticing, parsimonious and elegant model of reality (Consciousness-only model), which in almost all cases, if understand conceptually and tested out in our life, puts an effortless, natural end to the disruptive thinking mind in behalf of a separate self.
Brilliant! Thanks for the guidance Rupert!
Enlightened beings have many siddhis, mundane and supreme Siddhis, they can help many beings in many ways and knows what is best in each moment, they are rare indeed able to see past, future and to know everything ... where many " enlightened " people out there do not know even the complexity of advanced mathematics , cosmology, physics or biology.
I love you, Rupert!❤❤❤
Lovely. Thank u.
Thank you Rupert 🙏🏾
The infinite consciousness. Let's name as the only MIND.
This MIND is both present, knows it's present, and aware.
The MIND's activity localizes itself to spawn the separate self.
much like how you in your dream state, you create a world, and all it's characters... also you yourself are present in your dream as an individual... losing your true self.
and in this dream, you are a separate individual... although the whole creation is from your mind.
Similarly, the thought of you as a separate individual is MIND losing itself as a separate entity in the entire creation of it's own world.
Enlightenment is knowing this truth and decondition the mind of it's assumed perception.
or in other terms overcoming "Maya", the illusory self.
When the MIND withdraws from all it's local self, only awareness remains without any condition, that is Samadhi.
That's my understanding. 🙏
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All you have to do is just sit there and be. That is what Ramana did from 16 years old. Ramana came to know of himself as being the Atman and stopped identifying with his body. He came to that awareness in one afternoon while contemplating death. That's all anyone needs to do. Just realize that you are the soul and stop identifying with physical form and just sit there and be. The reason people aren't enlightened is because they don't want to do what it takes to be enlightened. Ramana realized the truth and then just sat. Buddha found enlightenment and just sat. Give up every attachment realizing your true nature, realizing the Self. Then just sit as Ramana and Buddha did and it is guaranteed you will realize the nature of your existence. Each one of us is a particle of the infinite God/Spirit and God is fully and wholly present within each particle. The whole of existence and creation is within us because everything is within God and God is within each and every piece. The Absolute is found within the relative. The infinite is found within the finite. Everything exists within infinite light and we are that light.
I get Spira's argument and logic here and maybe it is actually the better one than the instant surprise recognition that occurs without any seeking, out of the blue. That seems different and is what the seekers are looking for, but not realising they already are it. Maybe it's the nature of the realisation, a strong one vs. a weak one. In other words, Spira may not be triggered easily by what is happening around him but those in the class/seekers may be. So the old habits, egoic habits, etc. arise and Being is forgotten.
Rupert is in the top three greatest spiritual teachers of all time. Who disagrees?
Yes, it depends how you resonate .... we don’t choose this, its happening 😄
Many teachers give little easter eggs, which can crack up some beliefs 🐣
Who are the other two for you friend?
@@brianlittrell797Actually I can only think of one more and that's Ramana maharshi
I prefer Aaron Abke to Rupert but that is just my personal taste. Rupert is very good but I think Aaron is a better teacher and more broad and deep in his understanding.@@erick_warrior
🙏 Filament of an electric bulb may be how much ever bright and fire like
but can never be ELECTRICITY itself.
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In my personal experience, when I was being severely abused in a sick and disabled body, the Higher Power or Consciousness or whatever you want to call it, ripped me off of my body and I became aware of being a sparkle of Light in a white luminescent space. Once back into my body, I understood that everything is energy and that sparkle of Light was my pure Essence, namely just a fragment of the Universal Consciousness. There is only One Source and we and everything else are just a mere expression of it. It is an energetic vibrational world where by just being we get everything we have always wanted from our heart. Doing is an expression of the human ego which has a tendency to control everything because we are afraid to let go. The entire concept of civilization, education and history is a product of our imagination as space and time do not exist. But worry not as even the individual self is an illusion: it's just Source playing hide and seek with itself however, the creation of dualism was necessary to play this game called life. Welcome home everyone! 🏡🤗💖
Beautiful as always Rupert 🙏🏼❤
Thank you!
Nothing feels better in life than when the ego dies. 🙏
Western people like being told they are whole, perfect and complete.
Superb!
Brilliant as always
Thank you thank you sir
It’s not an enlightenment. Its a wrong word to use. Probably was misinterpreted from its original language.
It’s a realization that one is Simply Is and already Perfect, Whole & Complete. Nothing else is needed. Just trust & let go. Grace Does The Work.
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Thank you Rupert
I would like to see enlightened beings getting together like Rupert, Francis Lucille, Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, etc. and share their own ideas together. That would be interesting and fascinating.
It takes balls to archive enlightenement and alot of effort daily training and meditation and after it dealing with the sad realisations of human nature, I think what enlightenment truly is is that our minds are some kind of Super Computer Software that runs through our brains and when u somehow get energy in your head conciouness can rewritte it then enlightenment happens activating trillions of braincells that were sleeping before u become closer to god
Oh this young man is a tough cookie -but I think Rupert got over the radical truth no ego wants to hear brilliantly 😁
This! Is! It! I AM!
Statements like ‘you’re already enlightened’ or ‘you’re already it’, although fundamentally correct, they are, for all practical purposes, absolutely unsustainable and therefore, impractical. The questioner started promising but gave in.
Siddhartha Gotama would have laughed at this conversation to no end 😂
Also funny how RS now realizes that what he did 5 years ago promoting Self inquiry actually made things worse. It’s better to actually leave people alone rather than ‘try to help’ (ego). Better not make things worse and then revert back to correct the wrong and say to them to ‘just be’ 😂. You’re not doing a service to humanity. This is all Ego…
@@blissfull8274 any tool can be usefull, or useless or worse than nothing, depending on each person or situation; there is no way to come to a conclusion, a right path and all that kind of things
@@marjorie6021 We can’t agree more. People always do the ‘right’ thing depending on their situations. Leave them alone. Interfering/helping is the ego of the helper.
@@blissfull8274I’m very disappointed by what I just saw. Rupert is now in the same camp as Tony Parsons - “nothing to do, you are already enlightened”. But please keep coming to my talks.
I guess you know better than Ramana Maharshi - considering that he taught self-inquiry and it been helpful and effective for many. RS never said or implied it made things worse. That is your assumption and misperception.@@blissfull8274
Excellent! Thank you!
It's hard to believe that grown-up persons can take seriousñy so inane an instruction as "don't meditate, just be".
Rupert is absolutely right. By the way, at the recent World Yoga Festival a woman asked Swami Sarvapriyananda a question that began "You said to me yesterday before the talk that you consider Rupert Spira to be self-realised..."
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I like that - the art of laziness, the art of being.
I have a question about the I am sense. When I go to the sense I am, I have a strong feeling of me as a person with all my story an personal circumstances, and as a result I feel a strong feeling of separation.
I can not recoginze myself as awareness, and also I can not clearly see or feel Im not these person or this ego.
Ive been fighting with this question for years.
I havent perceived non-seperation before. But when I do self enquiry I find myself resting in what feels like a complete openess, there is an underlying peace and joy that doesn't run out. So from what I understand, this is my true nature and all that is to be done is just to rest in it more and more until it becomes my predominant state. Infact it already feels much more sober and natural to how I was living before. Like I said I haven't had a shift in perception yet, but why does that matter if I am already feeling peace and joy resting in "I am". Don't get me wrong though, intense emotions do come up and the I do emotion work where I allow the emotion/sensations.
Trust your intuition man. Maybe take a break from this stuff if you feel like you're searching for too long or forcing something
All that said. Can you go to the point in yourself that is perceiving?
For starters, if you are recognizing the person and it's story you're already aware of that :) Those are thoughts. So if you are recognizing them as thoughts than you are aware of the thoughts. Keep being willing to surrender. You'll be fine. Don't overthink it or analyze it. Move to your emotions, your sensations and your perceptions. You'll recognize the true Self soon enough.
I think there is this real "i am", pure being experience, but immediatly the "i thought" grabs it and says "it's me, i am that and i have a body a life and all that"
The person (the character) can tell himself “I am I am” over and over without getting anywhere. Rupert’s instruction to just leave it at that or just be and forget about enlightenment is very misleading. You are very right in that the whole point of this is to SEE that the person is not real. Actually see it and know it. Not just believe it theoretically. Simultaneous to seeing that the person is not real is the seeing that the circumstances are not real.
I highly disagree with rupert Spira.. Aware of Being leads you to something much deeper.. Then there are other stuck as teachers... Rupert would have to let go being a teacher to go deeper. The theatrics of letting go the initial one so to speak is not the full way
i see it more as an state like ebb and flow and it can be defined afterwards, when we reflect memories and how we develop and gain more wisdom. Its not something i witnessed in the present moment like a natural high or something. For some reason, conciousness filters a lot of informations in our current society.
Anyway, nothing to chase, we are complete and already the version we want to be. i let go and life will take care. The only thing i dont want to break is my moral compass, which would hurt me more than the external world. Marcus Aurelius said something like this and thats my mindset to everything that exist.
Every being "possesses" enlightenment. Most don't recognize it, a tiny minority do.
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Thats some genius level 4D chess he just played with that guys mind.
Once a Zen Master asked,
_"SK Sum, are you enlightened?"_
SK Sum replied,
_"Sir, SK Sum doesn't know. He doesn't know eventhough he's enlightened because he doesn't know what is enlightenment?"_
The Master laughed loudly, clapped his hands, and said,
_"SK Sum, now we can drink tea together!"_
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Muchísimas gracias!!!🩵🙏😊
There maybe 7 (or 8) levels of consciousness.
1. Dreamless sleep.
2. Dreaming sleep.
3. The waking state which has a train of thought.
4. The meditative state being a state of restful alertness and without a train of thought.
5. Bliss consciousness is a state of thought in which the ego is lost during meditation and a state of joy prevails after.
6. Nirvana (Pass)
7. God consciousness is a sense of infinite expansion or boundlessness. It can be triggered by the "night terrors" of childhood during meditation.
8. Death consciousness. This is speculative as no one returns to tell the tale, but is probably stirred and reborn since nothing is ever destroyed.
"Enlightenment" may be one or all of these states, all of them or none of them and they may be in the wrong order.
I favour the seventh.
Just another belief system
Imagine a road without beginning or end, there can be no bridge of enlightenment, no before and no after, how could I ever say that I had crossed that bridge, reached a point beyond change, how can we measure infinity, how could I even say that I move, how could I ever imagine I could change , a road without beginning or end has no marker, no time, no matter how fast or slow I seem to move I do not move at all beyond the change of which I see.
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Enlightenment is knowing the nature of reality and your place, as a human being on planet earth, within the universe. Avoid sophistry and study science instead.
We're all just souls living an human experience and to learn. Most people in the world have achieved 1 of the 3 achievements: spiritual awakinging. If people leveled up spiritually then they would be capable of the 3 achievements. Most people in the world have one or two achievements but no one has reached one of them which is leveling up the soul. God exist, the universe exists, the deities in each mythology exist, time exists at the same time doesn't, there's a pattern with the dimensions, there was once two gods, the story of creation in every in place all happened at the same time, ect. The souls journey when learning is a pattern of construction,deconstruction,and reconstruction of anything and everything. Everything is connected in some way, shape, or form.
Just 'be' . Let go of those conceptual's. Those souls, spirits, truths, minds, etc... & the be-liefs, be-comes, be-ings, be-wares, etc.. etc... By default, enlightenment appears and shows 'lighten' or even 'light'. ego is simply NOW, 'go' and spontaneous. 👂
Words are dubious representations of what reality isn’t enclosed in bubble wrap. Words create conundrums, contradictions, pimples, and mental compost. Enlightenment, not enlightened. and yet, without words, we can't confuse minds. If you enjoy ALL that is life, if you have no way life MUST go to be blissed out, you are a light bulb.
Just be; without having any interference from your thoughts
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enjoy the now for tomorrow is crunch time lol😅
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The whole bunch of very likeable and intelligent people who teache us happiness are NOT enlightened. Is it not somewhat like a cook who teaches us how to make a delicious meal saying: "OK, I don't know how to cook but, ya know, we all keep ourselves busy so grab the utensils and saucepans and what not, and just keep going"? Rather disheartening. Sri Ramana spent all his life. What about Ramakrishna with his going into the bliss of Samadhi on the cue? With all due respect, if one tried and aspired for enlightment -- and didn't we all? and failed, one would say something like esteemed lecturer here, i.e. this is kinda not the point, the point is that, etc., etc., etc.
realizing that you are Supreme Energy in the beyond is enlightenment..its not easy to realize This..i seriously dont understand why hes not telling you that..i usually promote rupert spira, but not anymore...your not enlightened until you literally know that you are just this energy when there is no content..you have to see yourSelf as literally the Original Face..the world will disappear..
You usually promote Rupert Spira? LOL. But not anymore because he messed up in this video right? He didn't really seem to help the man in this video either.
@@brianlittrell797 i do..i usually like what rupert spira says..but i've come to the conclusion that he may be self-realizied but hes not liberated..he's not god-realized..what the difference? self-realized beings havent actually gone beyond while god-realizied being have...what is *gone beyond* ..the world literally disappears..the everything and the nothing literally disappears..its more exotic than drinking tea that rupert seems to suggest...
@@brianlittrell797 expereince enlightenment right now-?--the truth is that complete enligtenment is a rare attainment..and chances are slim to none..
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Rupert is assuming that the questioner is "already" Enlightened just because he can describe it. Non Sequitur not matching various Sages. Just because he says "I love it" has nothing to do with Enlightenment. Spira has lapsed into a form of Neo-Advaita, pioneered by HWL Poonja.
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To get there... One must do the work. I totally disagree with this . That you are already whole and complete and all that... Yes, it's true. BUT you are full of illusion and confusion too and that needs to settle first.
How to experience enlightenment, if enlightenment is not an experience? 😛
Why are people so obsessed with enlightenment?
Enlightenment is experiencing deeply and profoundly Oneness/Unity/Perfect Love - the essence of God - in every moment. It is permanent freedom from the experience of fear, negativity, suffering, separation and an inner sense of lack. It is experiencing one's true nature/divine nature all the time.@@HopefulTarnished
People want to be free from suffering and always experiencing peace, joy, love and freedom - which is their true nature. Another reason might be to have super powers.
I will never be entlightened... enlightenment happens when the (I) dissolves... when you stop identifying with you ego...
@@LifesInsight i,m not searching enlightenment it just happened... its al about knowing that ego is an illusion ... ego tricks your mind in endless... I...I...I...thoughts....
It is the definition of blasphemy to say “I am not enlightened and need to meditate to become enlightened.
Are you enlightened? "Of course I am but so are you, you just may not know it! Lol.
Are you enlightened ? 😂