Guided Meditation: The Essence of Meditation Is to Know Thyself
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- In this video, Rupert reminds us that the essence of meditation is to see through the relentless distractions of the content of our experience - thoughts, sensations, perceptions, feelings and so on - in order to see and know our self clearly.
He says: ‘Almost all our troubles and difficulties stem from the fact that we have forgotten or overlooked our self. We don’t really forget our self, at least not completely, but our sense of our self is so mixed with the content of experience, that we do not see our self clearly.
‘Our essential being is simply what we refer to when we say “I am”, and it is present in the midst of all experience. All that is necessary is to separate our self from everything that is not essential to us. What remains is naked, self-aware being. And having noticed our self as that, we remain as that.
‘To begin with, returning to or remembering our self may seem to require effort. But in time we realise that being our self, which means simply being, is what we are. Everything else - thinking, breathing, walking, talking, and so on - require at least a degree of effort. But simply being is the only experience, if we can refer to it as an experience, that requires absolutely no effort whatsoever. It is what we are, not what we do.’
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Essence of Meditation
5:51 The Essential Self
10:05 Meditation Requires No Effort
12:01 Being Is What We Are, Not What We Do
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Your wisdom and insight has forever reshaped my being. I am - eternally grateful for all you do to further our awareness,
Thank you so much Rupert ❤, for ever greatful 🙏
I remember making a similar analogy with my kid using the Harry Potter owlery as an example.😂 All the owls fly non-stop inside the owlery and each one of them has a word, an emotion or a feeling, or a sensation written on their back. And one day, one of them decides to take a photo of all the owls to hang on the Hogwarts wall. When the owl counts them in the photo realizes that one owl is always missing. Again and again the owl takes a new photo and counts, and always one is missing. And suddenly it realizes that the one missing is itself, who is the one taking the photo. And on its back, coincidentally, the written word is "I".
Sorry for my english. Greetings from Spain
I found your English to be fine. 😊
Beautiful
Thank you Rupert 🙏
Thank you! ❤
so well elucidated
Everything seen, heard and understood is our own being.
It's amazing that we are here.
During the dark night of the soul it is felt that awareness shrinks and connection with the open space is lost. Of course that is not true but not being able to access that natural awareness in the heart is very frustrating and fear becomes your main experience. What is your recommendation during that phase?
In order to know ourselves we need to understand our bio psycho socio conditioning and their respective’demons’. Our work is to delaminate ourselves from the unwholesome ( that which does not honour existence). This is nearly impossible without opening ourselves to our inner Buddha 💫meditate on the enso symbol…it will help you ‘get’ the cosmic joke✨
This is the path of liberation.
One being, one mind, Divine Undefinable Infinite DUI
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Is this i am meditation? What are you saying in your mind are you repeating I Am ? Thank you.
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he looks very sleepy lol 🥱😴😴😴😴😴😴
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So, for the past thousands of years people have been worshiping people who only know themselves and nothing more
Wish I could meditate, but I can’t even sit up straight without pain. This world probably isn’t for everyone
There’s no issue lying down to meditate, whatever makes you feel comfortable is best
I also have back issues ! U can rest back comfortably or even do it laying down !!❤❤
Meditate as you are.
@@aurelienyonrac 👎🏻
Positioning doesn’t matter. You can meditate anytime, anywhere. Even walking down the street. Notice your feet as they touch the ground, or the birds chirping. This is meditation.
Buddha taught: Anatta. Essentially, that consciousness is an illusion...your sense of existence is an illusion. Actually, you don't exist.
,Consciousness‘ as the word is used in many of today‘s Buddhist translations is distinctly different to what Rupert addresses by this word. Having inhaled a lot of Buddhist teachings, I see no contradictions here. Words are just words, used to point at ‚something‘ that is ‚no thing‘.
@MrHeinz, the point here is to get rid of concept of the self.
Yes. This is exactly what Rupert is outlining, just by using slightly different words. I don’t see that Rupert draws any other picture. Anatta, Anattman, all these are still just mental concept, words as skillful means, until we realize that even all our seeking and searching needs to dissolve into a pathless path, just like the last remaining traces of a self need to dissolve. To me, Rupert made this clearer in one year than all my studying of Buddhism did over almost 30 years, simply because his words and metaphors are easier to grasp for me than 2.500 year sometimes strangely translated texts (which I honor and love deeply).
@@heinzgassner1057 I appreciate your reverence for Rupert's teachings. I'm not sure if I agree with him however. My comment was to point out that Buddha expounding on the fact that Consciousness is the Primary illusion while Ruperts states it as the Ultimate reality. Perhaps it is a confusion of words and concepts. I also cannot grasp the notion of awareness being aware of itself without implying duality. As buddha claimed: all this conceptionalizing should have one goal: to alleviate and mitigate suffering. I find that on the merry-go round of non dual teachings comes the problem: I will stop suffering when "I" become enlightened .
Both the Self of Non Duality and the Anatta of Buddhism is what remain when you get rid of all philosophies.
I think it's very considerate to count others and not yourself, more so there is no need to count yourself because you are counted without being counted because you are the counter. Whats that silly Indian Guru narrative got to do with knowing thyself/yourself/myself.
Your experiences are very essential to your physical source presence because it is how the source evolves its physical host ie the intelligent species body and brain, and its been doing that for aeons since it's inception at an epoch.
So what is that self aware BEING that remains according to this so called teacher and how did that BEING derive. Unfortunately this teacher as many and their Guru's fail to explain the Physical Source BEING and how it's FORM derived. Basically they dont have a clue.
In its simplicity your BEING was initially FORMED not BORN.
Your FORM is definitely not space, transparent, empty colourless and it's definitely not Silent because it's full of knowledge, imprinted knowledge, your all knowing.
And that makes this guided meditation into guided not knowing. Staying quiet during the whole video would have made more sense.
I'm glad you have an answer for yourself, of course I understood Ruperts words differently to what you did.
@@irenemagill4890 So that would mean you know where the OURSELF the BEING is within you that is our essential self.
Because Bieng meaning is, Being one that exists in fact or thought and a living thing. Fact means a thing that is known. A thing is an object.
Being one that exists in fact or thought. Even if Being existed in thought, it would still have to be a thing that you thought of or thinking of. Even being aware, aware means having knowledge of a situation or fact and fact means a thing and a thing is an object.
I am looking at it logically. I dont require nor looking for an answer for myself.
You are just saying you understand what your great leader is saying.
So where within is the source of your Being that is doing the prompting for you to be aware of something. Remembering that your Being was initially FORMED and not BORN.