Awareness Cannot Know Fear
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Rupert is asked if it is possible for us to live without fear? He explains how fear is a fundamental part of our lives by using different examples to broaden our understanding.
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“Look at the mechanism of fear. See what is before this fear, what associations have brought you to this state. You feel a sensation and label it “fear”. You project an image of an “I” who feels afraid, then place this image in a dark forest before a huge lion.
The projection of yourself as a man, as a personality, arouses fear because the personality needs a situation to exist. Many of us prefer to suffer, prefer prolonging a hopeless condition because this gives the “I” a place to cling. If the “I” has nothing to grasp, it dies. But we must become accustomed to dying!
See each situation afresh without referring to a past image of yourself. When you stop projecting a person, an image of yourself as a man, as intelligent, as a certain kind of personality, as having so many lovers, and so on, what happens? You are still and alert, but not alert to something. Then the situation doesn’t belong to an image but to global consciousness.
When you are afraid, the “I” is involved in this fear and cannot intentionally let it go. The I-image drops away the moment fear becomes perception. And as fear needs stimulation from an image to exist, when there is no image, there is no fear.” - Jean Klein, “The Ease of Being”
This is great, thank you! 🙏
❤❤❤ ❤❤
Tears of Joy in my eyes for this UNDERSTANDING!! Thank you Universe, for RESCUING ME, for ALLOWING ME TO FIND RUPERT'S TEACHINGS. I am so HUMBLE, SO GREATFULL, SO, SO LUCKY.. Rupert, Your teachings HAS BEEN AND WILL BE THE BEST GIFT EVER FROM THE UNIVERSE!!! Love you Rupert!!
Relax lol
I've had panic attacks for up to 6 hours, everytime I think I'm about to die. I have learned that my big fear is to die. I realised that awareness is the God that can hold my fear x
We understand this when we are ready
I am more ready now than ever before!
I understand this on an intellectual level but I am not ready
I understood my true nature, but I didn't carry it through to permanence. This was before I ever learned about awareness. I hope I can get it back. it's the only truth.
20:10 - "it's just there to mimic the sense of a separate self" and "the purpose of meditation is to see what is true"; 2 gems I wish I'd heard many years back when all I had was grumpy old Vernon Howard tapes to make the path seem so much more elusive than it needed to be.
You wouldn’t have learned the lessons your soul wanted to experience if your knew this earlier
I have heard this talk many times! It's probably one of the best talks of Rupert Spira! He showed practical approach to deal with fear!
Or to use fear as a means to know our true nature.
I personally find using this emotion work with enquiry is important for me. But it can be different for everyone
This is enormously powerful
Thank goodness this video is still here. Honestly it feels a little like cheating on all the other many teachers I have had but Rupert speaks to me deeply. I don't know why I can hear Rupert but couldn't hear others clearly. 💛Infinite graditude. 💛
The best video I have ever seen which actually resonates with my own condition.
It's funny how the cunning human mind fools itself into believing things.
Rupert you are A SCIENTIST, a SPIRITUAL DOCTOR, I just dont have words to describe you how THANK FULL I AM for your TEACHINGS, YOU HAVE GIVE me HOPE, a HOPE THAT IS REAL, THAT IS NOT SHAKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you RUPERT!!!
"The sensation is there only to mimic the sense of a separate self. That is its only function. It's just there to mimic the presence of a non-existent self."
Wow, thank you Rupert 🙏❤
All I can say is wow! Enlightenment in 25 minutes. For real! Thank you from the bottom of my heart Rupert.
Master Rupert is like our father figure...if not grandfather (regardless of age) who’s so loving and understanding. The way he comforts people like his own children (regardless of age) is really fascinating. The energy field around him and environment is so loving, peaceful and comfortable for anyone to express their deepest problems without any pinch of hesitation. They all become like small kids who are hurt for no reason and master is convincing us all like it’s this not this but this, this is true and this is not. Can’t have any better environment to confess or share the deeper thoughts and feelings. If I ever like to confess anything I’d require the same environment too. Long live master. ❤️🙏
I am nothing and everything.
I can never truly know myself.
I am fear, and there is nothing to fear but fear itself.
I can only truly know myself.
I am love, and there is nothing to love but love itself.
Love is everything. Fear is nothing.
Yes, if anybody enters deeper and deeper into one's own fear of his again and again coming or repeated haunting of experiences of his unpleasant bad past in the form of images and thoughts in his mind and body, then the resistance offered by him to avoid the fear gradually begins to evaporate and staying with the deepest level of fear gradually becomes easy until at one point the fear begins to lose its labels and change its nature with the gradual dissolving of its sensations until at some point all the fear dissipates out into complete awareness which is infinite and gives a feeling of no fear at all.
This might well be the best thing on UA-cam
this was soooooooooooooo lovely! i now understand the idea of not resisting because now that i understood the nature of fear i dont feel that i have to get rid of it! i can live with it , because it is just a sensation and my thoughts interprate it as fear, i am grateful and happy for this.
+Wahj Pheonix Just wondering since it's been several months ago that you posted this, and if I may ask, is this working out well for you?
Hi Lavender Dorie,, sorry for the late response, this is one of the things that I listened to at one point and it really helped me where I was, now I am in a different place and I feel better and clearer every day, but I also listen to other speakers, my favorite is Abraham Hicks, they really helped me understand a lot about my self, Now I am in a place where I truly feel that my path is clearly unfolding, and I am more capable of making decisions than ever! as for fear it still sneakes up on me, but like I said I am getting better at dealing with it. Thank you for asking, I would love to know how it is working for you, You may write to me If you feel like it , here is my E-mail: wahg91@gmail.com.
@@wahjmohamedkhair8018 how are you doing now? :D
@@davee.4847 now, I am facing a situation where fear is present most of the time. I am using logic and meditation to go by. Now I. Able to transfer my emotions so fast. And my path is still deliciously unfolding
@@wahjmohamedkhair8018 wow I love that u actually answered :D how come ruperts method is not working?
Seems to me that the love of truth is first. From here we can face and understand all. Anyone agree?
You may be on to something.
That seems to be where Rupert started and continued his journey no matter what happened. It seems to be the most sustaining, as on the deepest level it is true. Love of truth, is truth itself, truth in love with itself in a self-sustaining spiral that continues to unfold.
@@adamdownes4725 Sounds good . . . but Spira shows no sign in his videos that he's continuing to evolve. I think I know what some of the signs would be . . .
Love of truth! Yes:)
@@QED_ What signs would mean he's "evolving?"
A wonderful gift for those of us suffering with decades of anxiety issues. Thank you Rupert 🙏 ❤
I like your teachings because you explain everything clearly and with practical examples of our daily lives.
so reassuring and comforting to hear Rupert explaining that our true nature is and always will be, simply awareness. pure consciousness that cannot ever be harmed, the rest is just our story, illusion
Thankyou sincerley Rupert 💗🙏💗
The best way to understand panic attacks..and what is really happening in your thoughts and body...No words to describe my gratitude .I wish one day I will meet you and say thank you indeed, mr Rupert !!🙏🙏🙏🌞❤🌻
The lady's voice!! i have just melted. So delicate!! And Rupert is incredible too!
I thought she was a woman.
Oops:)
@@zain4019 yeah! Hahah😂
@@zain4019 I think the guy is French myb
Elen Ol
Someone else recognized them as a fellow Dutch 🇳🇱
@@zain4019 hah, I see
prophet of our time :) love you
Oh, dont make him into a holy man! Ahh🤣
The fear in the body is an emotional memory from childhood when we felt unsafe, unsupported and so the survival mechanism of anxiety fight flight is activated...the stories are the perceived beliefs that we are not safe, not worth anything etc...yes we need to stay out of the stories to stop building the intensity of the fear...do we have to feel the past emotion by crying and releasing the emotional memory....
No, you do not. What you need to realize is that you are re creating the past fear in the present moment by clinging to a story that you are a separate self with a traumatic past. Learn to gently question everything you have been told about who you really are and how you got that way.
I find it very difficult if not impossible to rationalise fear and reason it off or apply what you find to get rid of fear. Your reasoning to disect fear and its relation to awareness is an impossible task. Reality of fear is different from what we conceptualise fear. We can never reason adequately and fast enough to catch reality. Its an exercise in futility. But just watch fear. Watching fear means instead of saying “ I am afraid ” you say “ I am watching fear”. This way you disengage with fear. Now you can see fear. You are not fear. You are not in the river of fear, you are out of the river of fear vecause you can see fear. Once you are out of the river of fear, you are not carried away by the waves of fear on the river of fear. And you are not giving any life, any energy to fear. Fear becomes hollow, empty, dead. Just watching fear or any other emotion like anger, sadness....
@@dbuck1964 this is so profound. Can you tell you how to detach yourself from the traumatic experience then?
@@DuongTran-mh7cifear arises with some background unhappiness which then consolidates itself with a thought and then as you are carried away by the thought which arises from the past and scares you about the future. In my case I'd say the residue feeling left by the fear is not that horrific as the thoughts, if thought stops so does the fear.
I have this alot. Recently when thought arised, habitually I followed them and resultantly there was this extreme sensations in my body, I closed by eyes and let those thoughts and feeling come fully (as I think back to that experience it was scary) but then after 2 hours I was calm again, but then again there was this "fear" of that fear arising again.
@@dbuck1964 Even if this is ultimately true, Rupert says trauma is stored in our contracted bodies, and this contraction is keeping the separate self feeling alive. That's why he created his yoga meditations, to unwind the traumatic knots in our bodies.
This was very helpful. I feel like something was realized from so much researching videos and studying. I felt a lot of similarities to this person's lesson. I may have to go through it again but I learned that this ego-mind is not me. I am not really scared or upset or angry. The ego mind is becoming scared and angry because it knows it's on the verge of being uncovered and losing its false sense of control.
In the book of 1 John 4:18 it reads;
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
I understand this even better now. The Bible is not all rubbish although most people seem to think so.
this is absolutely the best pastime (and i mean in it most respectful way you can imagine)... it can be aplied to any sensation but very useful for what we call intense or negative emotions/sensations... as it helps out with attachment to the labels we give to those emotions... and for those of us who identified with those emotions (precisely by resisting fully experiencing them and labeling them)... without dropping the labels completely as they can facilitate greatly the non-violent communication with ourselves and with the others... thank you! so much fun!
never boring watching, is it.
Such kindness and skill. Simply, Clearly.... Beautiful. Thank you for sharing as you do.
WOW, I never knew I was using non-duality to get rid of fear, no wonder the fear kept coming back
Watching in Apr 2020 amidst COVID-19 pandemic - introduced a friend who seems to be lost in fear ;- )
Did it work?
Another way would be to question and investigate the fearful ideas our mind comes up with. Reminds me Cathy Eck, who says that when there is emotion we have to drop the belief.
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love." (1 John 4:18).
Perfect love being total acceptance without any judgement; Loving, all embracing acceptance.
Are you saying that love is awareness? What is love?
@@imagin.e.ternity Wow, yes! thats it. Didn't even think of it, but that is it, Thank You :)
@@sakkel.7357 lol, its my pleasure.
Rupert himself has made this connection between love and awareness
A Celtic fan who is into non-duality? I thought I was only one. I'm subscribing to RVP.
Trying to get rid off, resisting a feeling is our current default state.
Instead of practicing letting go/releasing/getting rid of the feeling, we have to "un-habit" ourselves from the practice of letting go/releasing/getting rid of the feeling.
In fact what we do is, we start to clearly see that feelings are not made out of thought but instead that they are made out of sensations. And sensations are just as our sensations in our feet - with no unpleasantness/resistance.
One major problem that I have run into is falling into the trap of "let's sit down and feel my feelings so I can let them go... so I can achieve xyz goal". Once the goal is to "reprogramm the subconscious mind" you no longer see reality. You just 'use' the practice for egoic reasons.
i dont want to disclose publicly what i tried to address with this direct approach. Im trained in a few methodologies therapies and yet have succumb to much mental illness and depression. Rupert is such a support
thank you rupert spira..I have been searching a lot about awareness and finally found you
I love you ❤
This is so beautifully taught Rupert. Thank you x
thank you dearest rupert from all my heart and soul, most powerful and profound pointing, so that even the abnoxcious buzzing noise towards the end, lost it's abnoxciousness and just was.
Always love the flowers
Thanks again, Rupert...again, perfect timing for me to hear this now. Namaste.
This one got through my stubborn ego. Thanks
really enjoy rupert ... his knowledge his calming effect his perceptions
Thank you so much ,I found the part about her sadness being hidden in the body and dictating relationship s etc very interesting and I know I,m going to use this video a lot.
What the lady in video is describing is similar to what I am experiencing as well. I get this 'sensation' especially at the point of falling into sleep and it affects my breathing by making it quiet shallow..This 'sensation' I am sure is just repressed trauma and emotions (had lots of trauma as a child and loss of family which I didn't grieve properly). Basically I intellectualized everything including my understanding of the universe and basically stopped feeling as a defense mechanism. Since I've been meditating I have noticed these sensations coming more and more to the surface...but it's like my mind won't let my body experience these sensations because by doing so it will lose its grip on the 'reality' it has created...i'm curious if anyone else is going through something similar...
Hi. Yes, that is a variation on something that may be more common than you think and I have experienced it, too. You are not alone.
I want to say that I support and acknowledge your bringing it to the foreground and exploring it. That allows you to gain insight right from the start. What Rupert was doing may be something you could play with if you feel so inclined at this stage. Maybe watch the video a few times without first applying it to your situation, just to get a sense of the process in relation to awareness, thoughts and sensations.
For instance, if you were to just relax and rest in awareness while rereading your post as if it were just an interesting story, what would you make of the structure of what was said? Are you aware, then, that there is an very obvious story that reinforces a reaction to potential experiences of certain sensations? Doing this in in a casual manner without trying to accomplish anything may influence how you experience it as a witness of the story. Find out.
Of course, you would do this because you are interested in it with the sense of abiding with your experience rather than to fix something or "uncover" something, in this particular case. The stories can keep coming and create intricate plots that twist and turn and add this or that to what is merely a sensation there for you to be with. It is not about the story being wrong or bad or even something you have to stop or quit doing. When you are done reading a good book, don't you simply put it down and realize it was a story? That story may have had sensations along the way, too, and after reading the book you might have more, which your intellect then interprets as enjoyed, or boring, etc.
Go gently and do it as you feel you need to and maybe, in a place where you feel comfortable and secure, especially if you want to delve into constrictions and trauma. Maybe pay attention and listen to go and stop signals at first? There is no hurry at all, really.
The only thing that matters is how you relate to these symptoms. Whether other people have them or not is you seeking reassurance but it will not help.
Aloha, I really want to thank you so much for this video. It really got me to a good place by watching this guy. I am managing fear better now! Just letting the fear happen and let it pass worked. Again I am Eternally Greatful for this knowledge! Mahalo.❤️❤️🤙🤙
This video helps me to deal with many emotions resulting from the ego. This method is very helpful and rupert's energy and flow helps me to slow down and let the emotion go and move into the empty space. Thank you so much Rupert 🙏💕
We love u Rupert for bringing up the Truth.. with such simplicity and directness. it is the solution to every form of madness and emotional instablity if the person can be guided
Surely awareness is the only ‘one’ that knows anything, in which case it must know fear.
I think what he means is that awareness can’t “know” fear because fear is an word we have given meaning to as something unpleasant. Awareness just sees it as an sensation without attachment to what it causes or feels like. Therefore awareness doesnt know fear.
Simply exquisite 🙏🙏
This video will always be Valid with no expiration Date .
Rupert I adore You ❣️
This has helped me to understand more about out intention and attention of the mind and self . The labels , the conditioning of the self .
Coming from the mouth of one who is free, he can speak with authority. Coming from the one who is speaking with ignorance, it just sounds like the words of a spiritual hero.
Most valuable
Our innate self is awareness
Fear not for fear is not as tangible as we make of it
Listening to the body mindfulness
One of the Beautiful way to understand and be aware of all the source of emotions. Great Movement. 💖🙏
brilliant observations Rupert...thank you
so so True, and so Soft&Beautiful !
If anyone wants to add to their therapeutic approach than this is the ultimate approach that can be added.
Rupert for president
Accept it.
We have a choice love or fear. When you are with love, we have no room for fear. Fear is just an illusion. Take care.
Wow I guess my thought are having the thought of expecting to feel panic attack or anxiety...
Fear is like hot chilli, people who likes hot chilli don't think they don't get painfull sensation instead that the pain in mouth turn to pleasure.
Hi Rupert just want to send you my love thanks for all your advices they have made a difference in my life! ❤
The mind is somehow entangled with the body through its wrong-put attention..the shift of attention than creates a space between them where Life gets to express herself..when the space is created or established even the sensation in the body gradually subsides..this shift of attention requires courage(faith) to break the habits of the mind..Watching this video helped me to manage my mind in different direction..the established openess is beautiful!
Dont be afraid affraid to be who you already are!
Jump into the unknown!
My dilemma is this. I can easily recognize that my anxiety is coming from the mind. But because I have had this fear and anxiety for so long it has created habits and neural pathways in my brain and body. When I become anxious I start doing busy work and other things to discharge this anxiety. It seems to have created a conditioned habit that is much harder to break than the thought itself
face the anxiety and face the fear in increasing amounts and you will eventually become a new identity - be well
@@dl7423 yess. I have to face it. When fear kicks in I was the most productive guy than anyone 😂. But when I goes away I am laziest . I m way it's like we are liking the fear to be more productive. Just watch the sensations In the body and just observe the breath. Don't mind thoughts,hurts in the body ,this that etc . Just watch the sensations. And if you surely want to think than think about watchness just for a little moment. That watchness alone brings understanding that those are impermenant. And once you see they are changing ... Freedom ✨
THANK YOU.MAY LOVE BE WITH YOU.
💥 Here, Rupert tries to go deep on showing her a complete analysis of what fear is and show us. We're lucky to watch a true personal session going deep to get rid of fear. He uses her to unmask once and forever, that awareness knows no fear, and how we can proceed to face it. Krishnamurti said basically the same thing: When fear arises, don't run of it. Face it in the eyes, and the less resistance, the fear dissolves into nothing, because fear is just another thought. 🎉❤
Beauty of pure awarenes...
I am so grateful for this video!
Thank you soooo much Rupert!
Omg, this resonates. Thank you!!
I relate though with language. It’s also the language that plays a great role in causing and perpetuating problems.
"ask Awareness what it says About it"
Beautiful Ginger flowers..... 😍
Most of my fear is essentially fear of death
I believe every fear comes down to a fear of death.
The fear of trauma/abuse causes out of body experiences into nothingless, so it is a paradox.
This is so powerful
Wow. Just wow. 🙏🏽
Thanks. Beautiful.
i love this.
Nothing can be annihilated because there is no thing there to annihilate.
Waw so powerfull , that goes so deep in awereness 🙏 thank you so much .
My tears of Joy 😍
Non-dual awareness has no fear because awareness cannot die, cannot suffer. However the separate self cannot escape fear because it is the ego's fear of pain and annihilation. This fear can stem from situational perception or even the direct psychic injection of fearful thoughts and emotions by those higher up the food chain than us. Similar to a parent yelling at a small child, but without words or other sounds.
I think a better title would be “awareness cannot be consumed by fear” because fear can most definitely be felt and known by awareness, or else we would not know we are afraid in the first place
Awareness only knows itself
It is felt and known within awareness,not by it.
yes beautiful flowers :)
WOW!!
He asks the lady to feel the sensations in the Body while putting her thoughts to the side. And says the thought itself (not the sensation) is what’s causing the suffering.
But if his point is to resist nothing in our experience, wouldn’t that also mean not resisting the most painful part of the experience which is always going to be the thought itself? (He explains that the sensation isn’t what causes suffering, but the thoughts that go with it - which include the resistance) Isnt separating the thought from the sensation to let yourself feel it fully, inherently a resistance of the thought itself, which is more painful than the sensation ? isn’t resistance/thought itself what’s painful? So isn’t pushing away resistance/thought the same thing as denying what’s painful, which is the same thing as resistance in the first place?
thank you, rupert.
Very helpful, thank you.
Rupert I love you. Thank you for saving me.
Thank you❤️
glad you posted this thought, roger. it's accurate but "awareness" gives...no matter what the condition of the recipient, yes?
Amazing
Problems only apear to an imagined self, an illusion, a void
For awareness the illusion is not a problem at all.
My question to Rupert : why should you teach ?
Why tell an illusion that it's an illusion ?
Brilliant this.
The individual self is not an illusion. The illusion is the belief that you are that
individual. That belief which is also called ignorance, is held in the individual
mind so it is the individual that must "see" the falsehood as a falsehood.
Indeed, the illusion is the belief that you are that individual, but it's not Jane --the character playing Mary in this dimension that has to wake-up, it's Mary, consciousness so to speak, that has to wake-up to itself thus lucid dream.
ബോധ സത്യത്തിലെ ജഡഭ്രമമാണ് ജീവൻ മുതൽ മനസ്സ് മുതൽ സംസാര പ്രപഞ്ചം മുഴുവൻ. ഓരോ ജഡ ഭ്രമത്തിനും കടന്ന് പോകേണ്ടുന്ന ഓരോ ആരമുണ്ട്. സുഖമായാലും ദുഖമായാലും എന്തായാലും അതിലൂടെയേ അതിന് മാർഗ്ഗമുള്ളൂ.
വാസനാ ധാർഢ്യത്തിന് ഇപുറമേ ജഗത്തിന് സാങ്ഗത്യമുള്ളൂ.
Wow. Thank You!
I had to take this audio to Audacity to increase the volume so I could hear it. I'm wondering if what is said here could really, really work for someone with severe and complex PTSD and panic disorder. Does it finally stop finding another new outlet to express itself?
if you can be aware of it then yes... but if makes you fall asleep over and over again then its a problam you can be aware when you are not under attack and get stronger to face it and be aware of it in time of atrauma attack, which is very hard///
Oh yeah. I tried to cover it up with drugs, only for the fear to grow. Then i seeked a stronger drug. If there is a hell, i've been in it. Face your feelings.
I feel ya
Love and light 🙏🏻✨❤️
This is my situation. It sucks feeling scared all the time. You'd think I'd stop, but no. I felt awareness once, just watching. It was the only truth I've ever known. When I woke in the morning it was gone.
Beautiful
Also you can meditate on fear and release fear - ok, I see that is done here.