"Experience the fear without any resistance to it... from that point of view, is there anything problematic about it, without resistance... without reference to the past, to thinking, to comparing it to anything, and just experience the fear, is it uncomfortable? Is there any motivation in you to move away from it?" "Go closer to it, take refuge in the experience itself. Come so close to the experience that you can't separate yourself from it." "Take refuge in the now. You're always at peace in the now." "Whenever you're suffering, your suffering is contained in a single thought. 'I don't like what is present, I want what is not present.'" "Your fear is made out of yourself, your consciousness." "At the heart of your fear, you find happiness, you find peace... you find yourself." Wow. For me, this is one of Rupert's most poignant talks. Thank-you, beautiful soul:)
I just saw the title and it already makes sense, you cannot have two thoughts at once, just one quick thought after another, so if you have a negative thought you just create a chain reaction and a follow up story you give to it which creates more suffering, if you catch the chain reaction and thought pattern early on you can free yourself from further suffering by breaking it. You aren't your thoughts, thoughts can't suffer, it's the meaning and attachments you give to your thoughts that makes it seem real.
Great catch! ❤ Now what if you think of thoughts as refugees seeking asylum in your mind? And you are in charge to give or deny seeker the asylum? Now good seekers will enhance your experience of mind and bad refugees will cause you trouble in your mind? So the real problem is not refugees but perhaps that what is causing people to flee right like war or disasters, so you better deal with real problems you have and face it, risk is there but you will have to deal with the REAL problems in this world anyway, cheers and love ❤
@@UmmattiMuhammadan No worries mate :) It is true that what Rupert talks of has to do with "the core", "emptiness", "nothingness" out of which everything arises. One part of the problem is that we should not pursue "nothingness" or "enlightenment" as an object. To think we were enlightened from start would help, but on the other hand if we walk around "like Jesus" we surely got it wrong.. That's why it seems so difficult to convey the most simple and fundamental truth of our being. All the best for you!
@@AndreasDelleske so glad you're already enlightened 😊 all the very best to you 👈 "“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of the problem.” J. Krishnamurti
@@UmmattiMuhammadan I wouldn't say that; I don't know. To some, insights come gradually, to some more sudden, some see and then forget or almost forget and everyone is still different, habits, character etc. don't really disappear.. however everything may change. Much love !
CURE NOT ONLY FOR FEAR BUT FOR ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS, DEPRESSION, SADNESS, LONELINESS, HOPELESSNESS, YOU NAME IT .......... LOVE YOU RUPERT!! YOU ARE A SCIENTIST, A PRECIOUS GEM, Thank you for helping so many of us to heal, to REGAIN CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES, TO UNDESTAND WHO WE REALLY ARE!! Forever GRATEFUL TO YOU UNIVERSE, TO YOU RUPERT!!!
Whenever I turn to face the fear, I find that there seems to be a bigger fear located within it and this bigger fear is one of losing my place in this world, in this experience of who I am, of annihilation. But I address the resistance without including "resistance of ..." in this. I just release resistance overall and this helps.
Thank you ever so much. I’ve been desperately trying to resist for about ten years and finally here is an absolutely wonderful explanation of why it’s conceivable to go against what seems right, so thank you very much. You are a complete joy to listen to and have been helping me immensely. P.S. Those flowers are exquisite!
I am the same. I didn't like watching him at first, my own ego being envious of his openess. Now, I'm grateful and love Rupert and his videos, books, talks, etc. Has helped me so much
Not only suffering, but “you” as a separate entity is contained in a single thought rising and falling. Some thought emotion or sensation takes place, then there is an identification with it, “pulling” and storing it as a slice of “me” in the memory bank of the brain.
It seems to me that fear energy itself is a resistance to the energy of Peace in us. The presence of fear energy in me indicates I am in resistance to my own true nature. And yes, I would like to be stable in that(you mentioned: who would want that?), and not be satisfied "living" an intense energetic rollercoaster ride.
Thanks Rupert! So it's the resistance (the thought) we have about the fear that causes suffering not the experience (fear in this case) itslef. If we accept any feeling which is a movement of awareness and become one with it as awareness, we can even find happiness in even fear, too. So perfectly and so clearly said that even I can understand clearly. You solved all my problems with this insightful talk. Thanks, God bless you.
I’m frustrated with this segment because I want to understand it but I don’t. I suffer from severe anxiety and I want to totally understand what he is saying so badly. Especially when he says you can find joy and happiness in your fear. I really really wish I could understand this concept.
Jason Kowalski anxiety is made of sensations, take a very close look at the sensations. Vipassana/mindfulness is a good well taught path for first cultivating heightened awareness/concentration (takes practice to build up but worth it) and then aiming that power at anything going on in your experience including the worst sensations. Things up close in this manner have a funny way of sort of falling apart like looking at a horrible image up close on a screen. It’s just pixels, not good or bad. It’s trippy stuff and very powerful. I deal with anxiety and find it profoundly helpful
Yes, resistance and thought creates suffering...but if you go into the fear, look at it deeply, and understand it - fear often vanishes. Fear is due to ignorance and illusions of the mind. Really, fear too is caused by thought and resistance.
The 2 approaches of 'dealing' with fear...I think you said 'turning away' and 'turning toward'...Turning away still involves a relative comparison with ego..I'm not this, I'm not that..thats my ego and I am deeper consciousness..I tried this for a long time but kept being pulled into an egoic response. Turning towards, however, involves you 'catching' the feeling early on and not associating it with ego, but instead accepting the feeling and 'letting it go' before associating with your egoic social filters..this I have found works for me so much better and doesn't bring my ego in at all.
@@dts7824 I made a longer comment on this page explaining it and also there is a video on my channel which explains further. This entire philosophy is so shallow and misleading it's unbelievable.
@@dts7824 It's generally a good id 🕊️ea to feel one's feelings but it's absolutely not true that all feelings come from "a thought." It's also not true that feeling a negative emotion "fully" is going to resolve it or make it disappear into the thin air of awareness. I could go on but I will post another video on my channel about this instead.
The questionnaire is right, if there is only consciousness, resistance must be a movement of consciousness. Obviously consciousness likes to experience resistance and limitations.
The truth was seen from when apparently watching one of Rupert videos. (Didn't take too long for the mind to claim it as an experience) and what was instantly obvious was that there never was a separate self or a Rupert or a job or anything else. There is only the truth doing an amazing job of tricking itself into believing it could be a separate self.
All fear in the end boils down to fear of death - annihilation! Every separate self using all means possible and impossible (for example trying to download ones consciousness into a computer) to escape its fundamental dilemma - trying to survive but inevitable doomed to fail- is what makes the world go round. It's pure ignorance what makes us suffer and heartbreaking. Butt until the truth is realised, it's the nature of the game. 😘
No fear in surrender, why live in fear of death? Both are false images you placed in your egoic mind, you, no one else, surrender your ego to death. Live in the eternally now and be content with the present given to you by the one true consciousness. Non dual, non death, only the I, before I am.
Without the thoughts to maintain them, the bodily sensations subside in time. Also, Rupert’s body meditations help in this process (such as the one on UA-cam called “The Uncreated Light of Pure Knowing”.)
Fear is in connection to something that is unknown. If we have courage to face it directly and explore it the fear will vanish! It is not easy but I am sure this is the experience of most of us?
That sounds like an intention to have fear vanish. For me, there is a place where fear is neutral without thought and it doesn't matter to me if it vanishes or not. It just is.
Can we say like we are running it is activity of pur like our feeling sensation, thought but when we are still it is pure consciousness. So when we are still the activity does not happen so activity is real but temporary but you (as stillness) is true really
Fear is the emotional reaction to the current contents of thought, which involve memory. In the absence of thought, only the most immediate and dangerous threat can bring fear. Outside of this possibity, fear depends on remembering and imagining bad outcomes in the past. Awareness can witness this useless process of negative thinking. You are self harming psychologically speaking. Stop it, and the fear will go away - HAS to go away. Yes- far easier said than done But in my experience, is really is that simple. I would say, don't become the master that has to whip the inner slave into shape You are creating that duality inside, pretending you are the master, when in fact you become the slave, the one enduring punishment.
I have had fear just grip me without a proceeding thought. I’m sure it’s the general thought of being a separate self underlying things, but just fear out of nowhere with no conscious thought process. Thankfully that had diminished a lot now though. I could wake up in the morning feeling joyful until I really am awake, then as so as I was aware I was awake... bam... a horrible darkness and fear to fight for the rest of the day. No specific thought involved.
Sadhguru is kind of a clown though. But who am i to judge. It would be fun if they did something unrelated to their ordinary talks. Maybe if Rupert and Sadhguru did nuru massage with eachother, that would be so humorous.
@@jonber9411 If you think so then definitely you should not believe them nor follow them .... Dont waste your time bro with them... But I have found lot of values from their teachings and I love them 🙏🙏🙏
But when you panic in social situations how can you go inside your self and go close to the fear? You can not have a conversation with someone at the same time?
I got it. The separate self, what resists fear, is the animal-self survival instinct. To be free of that resistance means to experience the bliss of pure consciousness in the now...but also become not that great at survival b/c eating and starving would be seen as one--the illusion of the separate self. I wonder if anyone has ever considered the possibility that the experience of the united self and consciousness beyond conditions is the illusion, and not the world that animals experience.
They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (Yajurveda 40:9) They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti i.e. created things (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith pg. 538)
I have just recently realized the truth in what he is saying after 50 years of soul searching. I wish we had had UA-cam when I was a kid/young adult. And if people just realize a fraction of what he is saying..... What a wonderful place this would be 😊
where is the line between not resisting and taking what might be a necessary right action? this is where I get hung up. Does one just accept horrible situations by not resisting? and allow the horrible situations continue? For instance, for me right now, I am aware that I am awareness. my conditioned self is sad about the outcome of our election here in the US and I am also accepting of it. If the 'worse case scenarios' actually pan out, will my awareness prompt me to work to change it, or will living from awareness create a passive acceptance... I think I will know in any moment how to respond out of awareness - but not confident of this. any insight would be helpful.
If I see a red traffic light and I take it out of context - it doesn't alarm me, I can simply take it for what it is and so I keep driving and perhaps hit another car. I completely acknowledge the principle of being with the fear. But isn't the problem the idea that the fear actually means something like a red flag from the subconcious we just don't understand (yet)? "I have a bad feeling about this" you say and then start investigating why you have a bad feeling and maybe then you make a decision based on that. Isn't this a question of whether you can or cannot trust your gut / instinct? I guess the fear we are talking about here is more about a general one rather than specifically connected to a certain situation. But still I assume that feeling miserable (fearful) in your life could actually MEAN something and you could figure out how your life would be better, e.g. eat more breakfast? Or could being with the fear be exactly the best way to understand why the fear is arising.. oooh i see.. i guess
This has also been my question. So there is a fear and there is an intuition. Sometimes when i feel bad about someone, it's bcz of fear rooted in past bad memories with people. And at sometimes I'm actually right about the person. Just don't know in that moment, whether this fearful thought is coming out of a past memory pattern or is my gut right.
I was suffering, and I really mean suffering, for my whole life. I always felt that it is somehow unnecessary, that I am doing something wrong, but I could not step out of it. What a waste of life.
@@nadimares7153 try to notice that every point of your suffering boiles down to the thought of “this situation should be different than it is”. Try to notice that when trying to “fix” the situation youre actually adding more of the “this shouldn’t be” thoughts. Then accept feeling uncomfortable and realize that there is no suffering unless you lable it as such. The thing that is causing suffering is the trying not to suffer. Let go of that and see what remains.
Fear is not neutral. It is an energy flowing through negative belief filters. It's whole purpose is to be unpleasant so that you challenge those unhelpful beliefs. If you merely watch the fear, it's true that it will pass but it will return when the stimuli that activates it returns.
hengrave5 true, but for whom is this a problem? By practising watching without resistance or attachment, each time it returns the ripples will be less and less intense, it will be starved of the energy it requires to feed on and it will die out naturally
If you look more closely at a person's life -- such as the one who says he has "fear" -- you're going to see deeper character issues, trauma, delusions and addictions -- which means their suffering is far more than just this "single thought" and "resistance." There is delusion and distortion in them. It doesn't give way to this simplistic suggestion of "feel it without resistance." This whole teaching implies that you can just intellectually investigate "thoughts" and then experience your feelings "without resistance" and discover the "awareness" that is peace. A nice theory, but false. You're not going to be able to realize the Self (awareness) without deep samadhi. Your suffering doesn't just come from "a single thought" it comes from the entire complex of a false, mentalized self and its mistaken, loveless, cynical and/or materialist/atheist mindset, which is only cured by deeper experience of samadhi and illumination.
@MichaelDamianPHD I mostly agree with you Dr. Damian. I'm very happy you put forth this observation. Sadly, there is an element of fanaticism out there in the world of spiritual teachings; which has spread like wild fire over the internet. Although I do not accuse Rupert of this because he is authentic and responsible with his teachings. However, there is a "school of thought" among lay people, that this "so called enlightenment" thing is going to solve all my problems and allow me to be carefree in the world. This is also a ridiculous delusion or distortion of reality. The problem with approaching something like this, is basically two-fold in my experience. These concepts can appear very complex without proper investigation, so clarity is difficult. And second, we have the problem of language; Much of the Lingua from ancient texts does not translate directly and causes false understanding. And well perhaps 3rd, we have the immediate gratification problem. Most people are not disciplined enough. They want the result, but they don't want the process. This process can be very dangerous for vulnerable people. At one point even I felt like I was losing my mind trying to understand. Thanks.
...if you do not resist, and go into the fear, will you lose the benefit of the extra adrenaline rush required to give you the strength/energy to escape...say..a ferocious predator??... There must be a legitimate reason for the Fight-Or-Flight response. Self preservation kicks in...it's a beast....
You're substituting your own context, and paradoxically making his point anyway. He doesn't say ignore fear, he says to have the fear - exactly what you are saying is a necessary survival response. [This is aside from the fact that I think it's a different type of fear that I think he is suggesting to explore. Probably tough to be mindful when escaping a lion.] I guess even after that aside you're making his point anyway. The fear you have when escaping a lion works as a survival mechanism - exactly because you are aligning with its dictates. Imagine if, when staring down your apex predator, you said to yourself "I don't like being afraid. How can I take my mind off this?"
+oneofthepeoplehere ...maybe the thing to take away from this is that _imagined fear is not the same as Real World fear._ We can conveniently have the recollection of a fear in a retreat and the leisure/comfort of clinically "dealing" with the fear on the spot, in the real world however, is where the true skill of "applied mindfulness" is *demonstrated.* ....Peace...
I will not find my fear shining with joy and peace. Sorry. I guess Rupert hasn't got the same references of scale and magnitude of fear that many people live with. His situation looks pretty cushy. And he suggested that fear is based on one flimsy thought. Sometimes it's based on decades of hard evidence. This is definitely spirituality for those who "have everything".. He also suggested elsewhere that people who are suffering are looking for happiness in material gains. Uhh, yes, I suppose so in the upper classes of the first world. But most people are hungry, ill, at war, and under constant threat globally. They may just be looking for a bit of food or not to be raped again today. But, hey, they can always adjust their expectations and accept being raped again today and call it "happiness." Sheesh . . .Rupert, probably not at your gatherings, but other places there are people dealing with really horrific life situations. For real in this world -- sure not for real in the great one-consciousness where no one gets hungry or has brain cancer.
cck very good points. I believe Rupert would share very similar wisdom with someone suffering from those things. But like you say, sometimes a person needs a sandwich more than anything else.
So you believe that no one has found spiritual peace in a circumstance of suffering? Hunger? Illness? You know this is not true. The concepts explained here do not originate in the "upper classes of the first world". It comes from ancient India 400-500 BC.
I had intense and world-shattering OCD that had kept me from living my life for five years. And yet, I overcame it through the knowledge of my own being through awareness seeing itself, and through the revelation that indeed, my fear does shine with joy and peace, with my own being. Continue to brave your experience. Feel the pins and needles of tightness explode through your body, the resistance masquerading as the fear, and feel the fear alone. It is utterly freeing, and something we all have access to in our experience. Best of luck!
@@snakedogman I said nothing of the sort, actually. And Rupert is speaking to contemporary audiences and presenting neo-advaita which was created by his mentor so it's not thousands of years old. It's a couple of decades old? Compare Rupert to Nisargadatta and see if you can find anything in common. Anything. And Nisargadatta was interpreting Advaita in the 20th century, not from 2000 b.c. a lot has changed and humans change with it. peace.
"Experience the fear without any resistance to it... from that point of view, is there anything problematic about it, without resistance... without reference to the past, to thinking, to comparing it to anything, and just experience the fear, is it uncomfortable? Is there any motivation in you to move away from it?"
"Go closer to it, take refuge in the experience itself. Come so close to the experience that you can't separate yourself from it."
"Take refuge in the now. You're always at peace in the now."
"Whenever you're suffering, your suffering is contained in a single thought. 'I don't like what is present, I want what is not present.'"
"Your fear is made out of yourself, your consciousness."
"At the heart of your fear, you find happiness, you find peace... you find yourself."
Wow. For me, this is one of Rupert's most poignant talks. Thank-you, beautiful soul:)
I just saw the title and it already makes sense, you cannot have two thoughts at once, just one quick thought after another, so if you have a negative thought you just create a chain reaction and a follow up story you give to it which creates more suffering, if you catch the chain reaction and thought pattern early on you can free yourself from further suffering by breaking it. You aren't your thoughts, thoughts can't suffer, it's the meaning and attachments you give to your thoughts that makes it seem real.
Isn't meaning a thought too?
Love the comment. Helped with current presense. Thank you
It is is basically what the Buddha termed as Dependent Origination
Like a salad sandwich?
Great catch! ❤
Now what if you think of thoughts as refugees seeking asylum in your mind? And you are in charge to give or deny seeker the asylum? Now good seekers will enhance your experience of mind and bad refugees will cause you trouble in your mind?
So the real problem is not refugees but perhaps that what is causing people to flee right like war or disasters, so you better deal with real problems you have and face it, risk is there but you will have to deal with the REAL problems in this world anyway, cheers and love ❤
With every video of Rupert, I gain at least 400 more enlightenment points :)
Lol, thanks for the laugh😂
@@UmmattiMuhammadan I would humbly invite you to collect some humour points and you will be enlightened! :)
@@UmmattiMuhammadan No worries mate :) It is true that what Rupert talks of has to do with "the core", "emptiness", "nothingness" out of which everything arises. One part of the problem is that we should not pursue "nothingness" or "enlightenment" as an object. To think we were enlightened from start would help, but on the other hand if we walk around "like Jesus" we surely got it wrong.. That's why it seems so difficult to convey the most simple and fundamental truth of our being. All the best for you!
@@AndreasDelleske so glad you're already enlightened 😊 all the very best to you 👈
"“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of the problem.” J. Krishnamurti
@@UmmattiMuhammadan I wouldn't say that; I don't know. To some, insights come gradually, to some more sudden, some see and then forget or almost forget and everyone is still different, habits, character etc. don't really disappear.. however everything may change. Much love !
The Stillness is Shiva and the Energy Movement is Shakti... 🙏🙏🙏
The guy is simply too good. Live long, friend.
Dear Rupert, this specific teaching of how to get close and experience the feeling is so, so helpful! Thank you so much!
"Fear itself is not a problem. Its resistence to it."
CURE NOT ONLY FOR FEAR BUT FOR ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS, DEPRESSION, SADNESS, LONELINESS, HOPELESSNESS, YOU NAME IT .......... LOVE YOU RUPERT!! YOU ARE A SCIENTIST, A PRECIOUS GEM, Thank you for helping so many of us to heal, to REGAIN CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES, TO UNDESTAND WHO WE REALLY ARE!! Forever GRATEFUL TO YOU UNIVERSE, TO YOU RUPERT!!!
Nice explanation, Guru Rupert. This is valuable piece of advice in today's living, working day to day.
Absolutely masterfull; such deep understanding. Thank you, Rupert, for your service. 🙏
Whenever I turn to face the fear, I find that there seems to be a bigger fear located within it and this bigger fear is one of losing my place in this world, in this experience of who I am, of annihilation. But I address the resistance without including "resistance of ..." in this. I just release resistance overall and this helps.
Yes, we fear letting go will bring us loss, not understanding that until we do, it is the loss of suffering. Resistance is deeply conditioned.
@@angelariley5403 true
I wanted to say without resistance there’s no fear. But also it IS extremely uncomfortable with no reference, that’s how it’s designed to be!
Thanks to Rupert’s teaching and wisdom, I gained my life again. Thank you.
Thank you ever so much. I’ve been desperately trying to resist for about ten years and finally here is an absolutely wonderful explanation of why it’s conceivable to go against what seems right, so thank you very much. You are a complete joy to listen to and have been helping me immensely.
P.S. Those flowers are exquisite!
i have come to love this guy as i have grown
I am the same. I didn't like watching him at first, my own ego being envious of his openess. Now, I'm grateful and love Rupert and his videos, books, talks, etc. Has helped me so much
@@thedentistbakery2010 Which books of his are best? There are a dozen or more of them!
Damn, this guy smacked me upside the head with an experience rather than just another teaching.
This is very clear. Thanks so much Rupert！You are one of very few teachers who can speak in such clarity. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Not only suffering, but “you” as a separate entity is contained in a single thought rising and falling. Some thought emotion or sensation takes place, then there is an identification with it, “pulling” and storing it as a slice of “me” in the memory bank of the brain.
It seems to me that fear energy itself is a resistance to the energy of Peace in us. The presence of fear energy in me indicates I am in resistance to my own true nature. And yes, I would like to be stable in that(you mentioned: who would want that?), and not be satisfied "living" an intense energetic rollercoaster ride.
Thanks Rupert! So it's the resistance (the thought) we have about the fear that causes suffering not the experience (fear in this case) itslef. If we accept any feeling which is a movement of awareness and become one with it as awareness, we can even find happiness in even fear, too. So perfectly and so clearly said that even I can understand clearly. You solved all my problems with this insightful talk. Thanks, God bless you.
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information. Lots of love from an Australian 🇦🇺❤
Who does Rupert's flower arrangements? So beautiful!
Seem artificial to me
Ive seen jean Klein do it too. his teacher's teacher. very nice :)
I’m frustrated with this segment because I want to understand it but I don’t. I suffer from severe anxiety and I want to totally understand what he is saying so badly. Especially when he says you can find joy and happiness in your fear. I really really wish I could understand this concept.
Jason Kowalski anxiety is made of sensations, take a very close look at the sensations. Vipassana/mindfulness is a good well taught path for first cultivating heightened awareness/concentration (takes practice to build up but worth it) and then aiming that power at anything going on in your experience including the worst sensations. Things up close in this manner have a funny way of sort of falling apart like looking at a horrible image up close on a screen. It’s just pixels, not good or bad. It’s trippy stuff and very powerful. I deal with anxiety and find it profoundly helpful
Rob Maric thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it a lot.
Jason Kowalski my pleasure!
Yes, resistance and thought creates suffering...but if you go into the fear, look at it deeply, and understand it - fear often vanishes. Fear is due to ignorance and illusions of the mind. Really, fear too is caused by thought and resistance.
Thank you very much Rupert!!!
My Dear wonderful master my Sadguru thanks a lot
much respect to this man. i have known about him for a long time but this is the first time i actually took some time to listen to him.
The 2 approaches of 'dealing' with fear...I think you said 'turning away' and 'turning toward'...Turning away still involves a relative comparison with ego..I'm not this, I'm not that..thats my ego and I am deeper consciousness..I tried this for a long time but kept being pulled into an egoic response. Turning towards, however, involves you 'catching' the feeling early on and not associating it with ego, but instead accepting the feeling and 'letting it go' before associating with your egoic social filters..this I have found works for me so much better and doesn't bring my ego in at all.
Amazing! Beautiful explanation, love it. thanks to Master Spira!
I've seen all Ruperts videos or I thought as much.. this understanding is so simple and his expression of it is beautiful.
Simple, but false.
@@MichaelDamianPHDplease elaborate on why you think this advice is false 😊
@@dts7824 I made a longer comment on this page explaining it and also there is a video on my channel which explains further. This entire philosophy is so shallow and misleading it's unbelievable.
@@MichaelDamianPHD so you are saying that learning not to resist emotions is a bad thing?
@@dts7824 It's generally a good id 🕊️ea to feel one's feelings but it's absolutely not true that all feelings come from "a thought." It's also not true that feeling a negative emotion "fully" is going to resolve it or make it disappear into the thin air of awareness. I could go on but I will post another video on my channel about this instead.
Another outstanding video Rupert, much appreciated mate. I also enjoy receiving your daily quotes. Your are awesome : )
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
Love the older rupert videos
Muchas gracias Rupert!!!
The questionnaire is right, if there is only consciousness, resistance must be a movement of consciousness. Obviously consciousness likes to experience resistance and limitations.
Rupert, there is no fear when there is no separation.
The truth was seen from when apparently watching one of Rupert videos. (Didn't take too long for the mind to claim it as an experience) and what was instantly obvious was that there never was a separate self or a Rupert or a job or anything else. There is only the truth doing an amazing job of tricking itself into believing it could be a separate self.
Oimsi100 beautifully said ♥️
All fear in the end boils down to fear of death - annihilation! Every separate self using all means possible and impossible (for example trying to download ones consciousness into a computer) to escape its fundamental dilemma - trying to survive but inevitable doomed to fail- is what makes the world go round. It's pure ignorance what makes us suffer and heartbreaking. Butt until the truth is realised, it's the nature of the game. 😘
Beautifully explained!
No fear in surrender, why live in fear of death? Both are false images you placed in your egoic mind, you, no one else, surrender your ego to death. Live in the eternally now and be content with the present given to you by the one true consciousness. Non dual, non death, only the I, before I am.
In other words...you are perfect the way you are
Thank you beautiful experience 💚
In EFT, we do the same thing.. we acknowledge the pain and ultimately release it.
yeah.true. I use it too. hows it working for you
Independent of thoughts fear has physiological reactions which are unpleasant. Heart palpitations, stomach in knots, rapid breathing,
Without the thoughts to maintain them, the bodily sensations subside in time. Also, Rupert’s body meditations help in this process (such as the one on UA-cam called “The Uncreated Light of Pure Knowing”.)
" Suffering is never in the event.. " There it is..Summarizes the entire condition of the flawed human mind..
Thank you so much 😊, it’s a very wonderful lovely explanation wowww I love you 😘.. thanks 🙏 all the best
The flowers are nice
Chiel Klamer it’s just a little sad they have to die earlier than nature intended.
@@AndreasDelleske Humans are nature too but yeah....i was just trying to find anything positive in this video and you're right..i failed 🙂
Thank you so much!
Thank you 🙏
Fear is in connection to something that is unknown. If we have courage to face it directly and explore it the fear will vanish! It is not easy but I am sure this is the experience of most of us?
Reima Väinölä yes but only to the people who watch these videos and truly understand. Took me ages 😂😂😂
That sounds like an intention to have fear vanish. For me, there is a place where fear is neutral without thought and it doesn't matter to me if it vanishes or not. It just is.
Tough stuff to work through.
Thank you
Thanks for the share 🙏
I love how it looks like he's talking to the vase of flowers on the tabel😂❤
How about natural resistance. It's also in the mind...
Fear hurts my heart.
Amazing
how could fear not be uncomfortable? even if is just the experience without the thoughts involved.
Dont be afraid to be in the now
yes it's uncomfortable.
Magnifique : i am this, I am this , I am this .... The tantric path
The fear is not the problem when we are present with reality and not associating mind ideas to give actuality to the fear.
So amazing 💜
sweet
Can we say like we are running it is activity of pur like our feeling sensation, thought but when we are still it is pure consciousness. So when we are still the activity does not happen so activity is real but temporary but you (as stillness) is true really
Marvelous
It feels like pure nonsense for me now. Thank You very much for Your beautifull work 🌹
Fear is the emotional reaction to the current contents of thought, which involve memory.
In the absence of thought, only the most immediate and dangerous threat can bring fear.
Outside of this possibity, fear depends on remembering and imagining bad outcomes in the past.
Awareness can witness this useless process of negative thinking.
You are self harming psychologically speaking.
Stop it, and the fear will go away - HAS to go away.
Yes- far easier said than done
But in my experience, is really is that simple.
I would say, don't become the master that has to whip the inner slave into shape
You are creating that duality inside, pretending you are the master,
when in fact you become the slave, the one enduring punishment.
Yes, emotions, not Consciousness.
I'll try it
I love how Rupert’s work is perfectly supported by A Course In Miracles!
I have had fear just grip me without a proceeding thought. I’m sure it’s the general thought of being a separate self underlying things, but just fear out of nowhere with no conscious thought process.
Thankfully that had diminished a lot now though. I could wake up in the morning feeling joyful until I really am awake, then as so as I was aware I was awake... bam... a horrible darkness and fear to fight for the rest of the day. No specific thought involved.
@@jameswaterhouse-brown6646 It is the separate self fearing dissolution.
So beautiful 🌹
I want Rupert Spira, Sadhguru and Eckhart Tolle, On One Stage 🙏🙏🙏
Sadhguru is kind of a clown though. But who am i to judge.
It would be fun if they did something unrelated to their ordinary talks. Maybe if Rupert and Sadhguru did nuru massage with eachother, that would be so humorous.
@@jonber9411 If you think so then definitely you should not believe them nor follow them .... Dont waste your time bro with them... But I have found lot of values from their teachings and I love them 🙏🙏🙏
This dude is a real "Guru". In sanskrit a guru literally means dispellar of darknes.
But when you panic in social situations how can you go inside your self and go close to the fear? You can not have a conversation with someone at the same time?
Everything is true.
I got it. The separate self, what resists fear, is the animal-self survival instinct. To be free of that resistance means to experience the bliss of pure consciousness in the now...but also become not that great at survival b/c eating and starving would be seen as one--the illusion of the separate self. I wonder if anyone has ever considered the possibility that the experience of the united self and consciousness beyond conditions is the illusion, and not the world that animals experience.
It seems to me that suffering is not a thought, but a certain kind or quality of experience.
Any explanation about anything( use of words)is, THOUGHT, though,we don't recognize it as such
Ed What is an example of something that is not a thought?
RAJASEKAR KUNJITHAPATHAM Let’s not mistake thoughts with that to which the thoughts refer.
They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (Yajurveda 40:9)
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti i.e. created things (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith pg. 538)
Perfection
Who here has experienced hapiness by facing deeply his fear like suggesting Rupert ?
Come to Australia Rupert!!
What Rupert describes as the Vedantic path is only the first step in a two-step process in Advaita Vedanta. It would be good if he made that clear.
Linda McKenzie He usually does say that it is a 2-step process. This is just an excerpt from a longer discussion.
If Rupert said everything it would be a very long video 😉
I have just recently realized the truth in what he is saying after 50 years of soul searching. I wish we had had UA-cam when I was a kid/young adult. And if people just realize a fraction of what he is saying..... What a wonderful place this would be 😊
Perfect
Fear is exciting
Bueatiful!💓🙏🕉
But what if you become the emotion.. do you not lose yourself in it?
Very good
where is the line between not resisting and taking what might be a necessary right action? this is where I get hung up. Does one just accept horrible situations by not resisting? and allow the horrible situations continue? For instance, for me right now, I am aware that I am awareness. my conditioned self is sad about the outcome of our election here in the US and I am also accepting of it. If the 'worse case scenarios' actually pan out, will my awareness prompt me to work to change it, or will living from awareness create a passive acceptance... I think I will know in any moment how to respond out of awareness - but not confident of this. any insight would be helpful.
deep bruh
If I see a red traffic light and I take it out of context - it doesn't alarm me, I can simply take it for what it is and so I keep driving and perhaps hit another car. I completely acknowledge the principle of being with the fear. But isn't the problem the idea that the fear actually means something like a red flag from the subconcious we just don't understand (yet)? "I have a bad feeling about this" you say and then start investigating why you have a bad feeling and maybe then you make a decision based on that. Isn't this a question of whether you can or cannot trust your gut / instinct?
I guess the fear we are talking about here is more about a general one rather than specifically connected to a certain situation. But still I assume that feeling miserable (fearful) in your life could actually MEAN something and you could figure out how your life would be better, e.g. eat more breakfast? Or could being with the fear be exactly the best way to understand why the fear is arising.. oooh i see.. i guess
This has also been my question. So there is a fear and there is an intuition. Sometimes when i feel bad about someone, it's bcz of fear rooted in past bad memories with people. And at sometimes I'm actually right about the person. Just don't know in that moment, whether this fearful thought is coming out of a past memory pattern or is my gut right.
I was suffering, and I really mean suffering, for my whole life. I always felt that it is somehow unnecessary, that I am doing something wrong, but I could not step out of it. What a waste of life.
Remember that telling yourself it was a waste of life is just a subtle continuation of your suffering
@@TissaUnderscore Tissa, unfortunately it is not subtle. I don't know what to do, how to fix it. I feel exhausted. N
@@nadimares7153 try to notice that every point of your suffering boiles down to the thought of “this situation should be different than it is”. Try to notice that when trying to “fix” the situation youre actually adding more of the “this shouldn’t be” thoughts. Then accept feeling uncomfortable and realize that there is no suffering unless you lable it as such. The thing that is causing suffering is the trying not to suffer. Let go of that and see what remains.
@@TissaUnderscore Thank you for your concern. N
@@nadimares7153 stay strong!
Why give something that can be starved 9:30 the attention (resistance) to feed it?
Fear is not neutral. It is an energy flowing through negative belief filters. It's whole purpose is to be unpleasant so that you challenge those unhelpful beliefs. If you merely watch the fear, it's true that it will pass but it will return when the stimuli that activates it returns.
hengrave5 true, but for whom is this a problem? By practising watching without resistance or attachment, each time it returns the ripples will be less and less intense, it will be starved of the energy it requires to feed on and it will die out naturally
Watched it 5 times and going for a sixth and still don’t understand. This guy has a gift for complicating things
We are a thought called "I".
Rupert is a good boy
Where is the sound,? It is almost impossible to hear.
what is my fear IS being in the now?
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I’m a little confused. If Rupert is a Vedanta teacher why is he recommending a tantric approach?
If you look more closely at a person's life -- such as the one who says he has "fear" -- you're going to see deeper character issues, trauma, delusions and addictions -- which means their suffering is far more than just this "single thought" and "resistance." There is delusion and distortion in them. It doesn't give way to this simplistic suggestion of "feel it without resistance." This whole teaching implies that you can just intellectually investigate "thoughts" and then experience your feelings "without resistance" and discover the "awareness" that is peace. A nice theory, but false. You're not going to be able to realize the Self (awareness) without deep samadhi. Your suffering doesn't just come from "a single thought" it comes from the entire complex of a false, mentalized self and its mistaken, loveless, cynical and/or materialist/atheist mindset, which is only cured by deeper experience of samadhi and illumination.
@MichaelDamianPHD I mostly agree with you Dr. Damian. I'm very happy you put forth this observation.
Sadly, there is an element of fanaticism out there in the world of spiritual teachings; which has spread like wild fire over the internet. Although I do not accuse Rupert of this because he is authentic and responsible with his teachings. However, there is a "school of thought" among lay people, that this "so called enlightenment" thing is going to solve all my problems and allow me to be carefree in the world. This is also a ridiculous delusion or distortion of reality. The problem with approaching something like this, is basically two-fold in my experience. These concepts can appear very complex without proper investigation, so clarity is difficult. And second, we have the problem of language; Much of the Lingua from ancient texts does not translate directly and causes false understanding. And well perhaps 3rd, we have the immediate gratification problem. Most people are not disciplined enough. They want the result, but they don't want the process. This process can be very dangerous for vulnerable people. At one point even I felt like I was losing my mind trying to understand.
Thanks.
No, I resist because I don't like the sensations fear produces. So I am resisting the experience of fear, init?
But why does frear manifests?
Lack of money makes you suffer but all the money can't free you from suffering. Strange...
...if you do not resist, and go into the fear, will you lose the benefit of the extra adrenaline rush required to give you the strength/energy to escape...say..a ferocious predator??... There must be a legitimate reason for the Fight-Or-Flight response. Self preservation kicks in...it's a beast....
You're substituting your own context, and paradoxically making his point anyway. He doesn't say ignore fear, he says to have the fear - exactly what you are saying is a necessary survival response. [This is aside from the fact that I think it's a different type of fear that I think he is suggesting to explore. Probably tough to be mindful when escaping a lion.] I guess even after that aside you're making his point anyway. The fear you have when escaping a lion works as a survival mechanism - exactly because you are aligning with its dictates. Imagine if, when staring down your apex predator, you said to yourself "I don't like being afraid. How can I take my mind off this?"
+oneofthepeoplehere ...maybe the thing to take away from this is that _imagined fear is not the same as Real World fear._ We can conveniently have the recollection of a fear in a retreat and the leisure/comfort of clinically "dealing" with the fear on the spot, in the real world however, is where the true skill of "applied mindfulness" is *demonstrated.* ....Peace...
I will not find my fear shining with joy and peace. Sorry. I guess Rupert hasn't got the same references of scale and magnitude of fear that many people live with. His situation looks pretty cushy. And he suggested that fear is based on one flimsy thought. Sometimes it's based on decades of hard evidence. This is definitely spirituality for those who "have everything".. He also suggested elsewhere that people who are suffering are looking for happiness in material gains. Uhh, yes, I suppose so in the upper classes of the first world. But most people are hungry, ill, at war, and under constant threat globally. They may just be looking for a bit of food or not to be raped again today. But, hey, they can always adjust their expectations and accept being raped again today and call it "happiness." Sheesh . . .Rupert, probably not at your gatherings, but other places there are people dealing with really horrific life situations. For real in this world -- sure not for real in the great one-consciousness where no one gets hungry or has brain cancer.
cck very good points. I believe Rupert would share very similar wisdom with someone suffering from those things. But like you say, sometimes a person needs a sandwich more than anything else.
So you believe that no one has found spiritual peace in a circumstance of suffering? Hunger? Illness? You know this is not true. The concepts explained here do not originate in the "upper classes of the first world". It comes from ancient India 400-500 BC.
I had intense and world-shattering OCD that had kept me from living my life for five years. And yet, I overcame it through the knowledge of my own being through awareness seeing itself, and through the revelation that indeed, my fear does shine with joy and peace, with my own being.
Continue to brave your experience. Feel the pins and needles of tightness explode through your body, the resistance masquerading as the fear, and feel the fear alone. It is utterly freeing, and something we all have access to in our experience. Best of luck!
@@snakedogman I said nothing of the sort, actually. And Rupert is speaking to contemporary audiences and presenting neo-advaita which was created by his mentor so it's not thousands of years old. It's a couple of decades old? Compare Rupert to Nisargadatta and see if you can find anything in common. Anything. And Nisargadatta was interpreting Advaita in the 20th century, not from 2000 b.c. a lot has changed and humans change with it. peace.