I discovered this method by chance recently and it completely changed my life. I’m now meditating 24 hours a day and understand all teachings from Buddhism, to Advaita, even those from theistic religions like Christianity so clearly I can no longer remember why or what was ever unclear. I’m free to be myself completely without ever experiencing any disturbance of mind because this unconditioned awareness is imperturbable. It is confident, energetic, clear, and stable. It is nothing like the deep states of meditation I used to pursue, attain, and then suffer when they would fall apart at the slightest distraction. Awareness itself is the direct, immediate path out of delusion and its consequence of suffering. For me, it was like I suddenly remembered ultimately reality, which is just this ever present, unborn, indestructible awareness
Flowery words. Purity of mind is one pre-conditioning for choice-less awareness. If you think you are aware of being aware, by mistake, after feeling blank state of mind for different reasons, you should examine it carefully.
I can tell the difference real easily because a deep, peaceful happiness fills me when I find my essential nature, & the cessation of thoughts without awareness is kind of neutral & blank.
When I close my eyes and sense the "being" of myself there's what I perceive as an accompanying "experience of a contented being". THAT is the presence of Awareness and other than state it in this fashion, it's indefinable.
I notice notice that there is certain similarity between “awareness of being” as explained by Rupert and the Buddhist concept of “mindfulness” provided that we don’t comment any thing that we are mindful of. In other word we just acknowledge every thing that appear in our consciousness without using any word to describe it.
Awareness seems to be a very centered calming simple sense of being..There is no true explanation of it. .. it exist for me as “ just is “ without questions ..
“ to BE awareness is to KNOW awareness ” “ BEING ourserves & KNOWING ourselves is the same experience, so don’t try to know or find the presence of awareness “
*From the video:* Don't look with your attention for the presense of awareness. Attention can only be directed away from awareness towards an object. That is the purpose of attention. When awareness wants to know something other than itself it rises in the form of attention and directs itself towards an object but that's what's attention is for. Attending to objects. Attention is the stretching of awareness towards an object but awareness doesn't have to stretch itself towards itself. If I said take a step away from yourself, you can't really do it. Attention never really leaves awareness but awareness only needs to rise in the form of attention and stretch itself towards the object whether the object is a thought, feeling, a sensation, or a perception. But to know itself, it doesn't need to rise in the form of attention. It just remains resting in itself. To be awareness is to know awareness. They are the same experience. Don't try to know or find the presence of awareness. You can only know or find that which is apparently not awareness. Think of awareness like a disease that you can only know by its symptoms. You can’t actually know the disease itself. Symptoms are peace and happiness. They reverberates in the body-mind.
You cant look for awareness, but you can be aware of awareness by being aware of sensation in your body which is the reaction of the external stimuli like light, sound, smell, taste, touch on your sense organs. When you look at a tree, reflected light falls on the retina in the form of colour of a particular wavelength hitting the retina, an impulse is sent to the brain where a particular sensation is produced. This sensation is not possible without awareness. At this stage this sensation signals the awareness of the presence of an object finally identified as a tree. But the sensation stage is only the awareness of something present which means this sensation is the result of awareness which is directed to the direction of the object. At this sensation stage, the directed awareness only “knows” there is something which is the result of awareness+ attention, the two conditions for this knowing. Only after the perception stage, which involves memory and cognition, the” something “ above is identified and labelled as a tree. This final stage usually known as consciousness which simply means “seeing “ a tree. So to know awareness is to be aware of the sensation produced by the two conditions awareness+attention and of course you can also count light as a condition in case of a visual object. You cant purposefully look for awareness and see it as if awareness is an object.
Taking a step to yourself! Hearing this I remember a conversation between Buddha and his brother disciple Ananda read long back. Ananda when he took sanyasa and was about to become a monk he requested Buddha that he should be allowed to sleep in the same room where Buddha sleeps. Buddha accepted with one condition that he should remain silent and avoid disturbing or ask any questions. So after very many years and Buddha was to about to leave his body, and Ananda asked Buddha for a very longtime I have a doubt and if I miss this opportunity I may not get the right answer so please help me clear my doubt. So Ananda said all along for years We both were sleeping in the same room and I never saw you, not even once, changing you body position in your sleep and couldn’t understand how Buddha could remain in the very same position he went to sleep the whole night. Buddha said while sleeping if he needed to turn to the other side or change his position he would do so simply within. Such was Buddha’s non attachment with his body🙏
after 15 yrs of TM, and 10 of zazen I have to share that the essence of Ruperts pointing is perfect. it's sounds simple, the effortlessness of this approach, but it is beyond subtle, and I for one always need reassurance and validation and Rupert nails it. Rupert is not my teacher but I have read all his books and have been following him for years now and he is godsent.
@@awakenow7147 Ahhh same! But I'm so so close. I say that alot but aaaah so close, better than ever. When he said "you can't know the disease itself only the symptoms" I was like Ooooooohhhh that's a good analogy.
The breath is not what you are looking for, so why did the Buddha and many enlightened people suggest long periods of observing the breath? This is not sarcastic rhetoric but a sincere question. Cheers.
I tried buddha path through teacher Goenka yes, it's TRUE we direct our attention to breath then to our sensations....in fact we call it Vipassana. Its a path to enlightenment but it is indirect. Looking at this direct path thought by Sri Ramana maharshi, Krishna, Nargasaddat marahaj and now rupert spira we find it's a direct path to enlightenment. It's so far very simple and easy to be if REALLY IT CLICKS. The challenge with direct path is its simplicity. Cheers teacher or sage @rupert
Thank You Sir, we love your "Light of Pure Knowing". Meditation CD's together with beautiful book presentation a plus gift to our learnings Transcript is very helpful to us, reading further us in depth, intuitive contact with "Overmind" awareness in Light A loving presence, being here Om God Bless
I have some problems with what Rupert says here.... He says not to focus on a blank mind but if the mind is actually blank, how can we focus on it? Is it possible to focus on emptiness itself? I don't think so, only the idea of emptiness can be focussed on. Surely if the mind is completely silent then all that is left is unfocussed awareness.....? And the 'experience of being aware' - it strikes me that experience and awareness are synonymous. Is there an experience of not being aware? Is there awareness without experience? To say I am aware is to say I am experiencing. I realise he is trying to point to the awareness of awareness, this curious feedback loop to infinity that we experience as consciousness....maybe I've answered my own question there. Has anyone actually reached the joy, happiness and peace that this path is supposed to bring one to?
They say, the journey to Self-realisation / enlightenment / awakening can last for many many incarnations. There is no time limit... that it has to happen in this life or next life, etc. Rupert sais it somewhere, that even the post-enlightenment period, the truly sinking deeper and deeper into "Being"/into "Awareness"... will last forever as well... ❤😊❤
Yup only happenings, seeing, hearing, talking, feeling, loving... no one particular to whom it happens except Awarness coz 'we' are awareness itself...
@@chimenerf We each have individual ways that we do something OTHER than what Spira is talking about. So don't be bummed. I recommend you keep checking out various "pointers" that different teachers offer . . . until you find one that works for your individual history. One that works for some people is called the "headless way". Maybe it's one that will work for you: ua-cam.com/video/5jYbDFyLhgI/v-deo.html
No, that’s the illusory state. In Self realization there is no “center”- you are located just as much in the trees and the mountains and sounds as you are within your head. That’s because everything you perceive is within your awareness and this awareness has no location- it’s everywhere and nowhere.
Pure awareness is boundless, your mind can never grasp it because it's not an object, your mind only has two tracks, past and future, it can never taste the present moment and that's the only place you can get a taste of awareness.
Thats the hard problem facing mankind right now, everything else like going to the moon, Mars, are easy problems. Neuroscientists are trying to prove that the brain is the seat of awareness, but in vain. The brain doesnt produce awareness. Awareness is an activity of the brain. Awareness is the result of the brain reacting with external stimuli like sounds, sights, taste, smells, touch, ideas to produce awareness of sounds, sights, tastes. smells, touch, ideas. That’s awareness. But the physical basis ie the brain + external stimuli alone are not enough to produce awareness. Its like a mechanical toy car cant move by itself without electricity or the potential energy stored in the spring inside the toy. Thats it, there must be energy to activate the whole process of producing awareness of sound, sights, tastes etc.
@John Mathew: It's not at ALL simple. We each have individual ways that we do something OTHER than what Spira is talking about. So don't be bummed. I recommend you keep checking out various "pointers" that different teachers offer . . . until you find one that works for your individual history. Here's one, that works for some people. Imagine that you look through a window . . . and what you see out there is "perfectly still and thoughtless". Okay (?) Now . . . what if I tap the window glass (?) How does that change where you look (?) See if you can maybe find the equivalent of that for awareness in general . . .
The easiest way to understand it... You are awareness. Simply relax and be aware of the experience unfolding what trips us up is that this practice is so simple we think "how can this be it???" The mind ironically wants something more complex... Just relax and just be aware of the nowness of the moment of the feeling of the body and senses without projecting opinions on the experience. Simply rest as yourself in the experience . When I say be aware.. I mean just notice. This will take you all the way to liberation (of course its already here)
My method is, I am aware of feelings, emotions and thoughts but I am not feeling, emotion or thought. Practically to do this you must have sensitivity and will power. You must sit and observe what is happening inside. At every moment we are identified automatically with many processes inside, 95% of which run subconsiously. What you can do is, when you observe attentively, wait when system will be identified with new feeling, emotion or thought and your condition will change. You must be able to sense that you feel bad because you are identified with that feeling. If you can sense that then just apply above formula. I am not this feeling. You must be able to sense that at that moment you are that feeling. If you can sense that you can break that identification. The difficult thing is to sense the identification. Actually the difficult and long path of Ashtanga yoga is exactly intended to improve this sensitivity.
Does the “stepping away from or towards yourself” analogy work even? 🤔. Isn’t that a dualistic analogy? Because if you’re stepping towards someone(the self), you are also stepping away from someone (the Self). Can someone with a good understanding on no duality explain that to me? I need to take a Tylenol.
I think this is how the metaphor works. You cant take a step forward to yourself neither take a step away from yourself. At the same time you cant focus on awareness neither take your attention away from awareness...as soon as you put your attention on awareness you have turned it into a thought, an object. Awareness is just the experience of being aware. This is why being and knowing are the same experience.
Cessation of mental thoughts and the relaxation or withdrawal of attention back into simple awareness may well be happiness inducing, and closer to pure Witness state, however the integration of our individuality and Universality are higher Samadhis than this. After all who experiences happiness? ~ another subjective state that stands in contrast or duality with unhappiness. Pure Being is transcendent and immanent. Untroubled awareness at all levels and times. These carefully managed practices are not effortless or giving true Sahaja Samadhi. Opinions and experiences require a new state of Collective Consciousness to inform, discern and discriminate truly. Fortunately it is already manifesting for many that spontaneously they are entering and sustaining this evolutionary jump that is not dependent on rigorous mental controls.
+Paul Pavan Keetley Happiness and unhappiness may be states, but ananda, or bliss, is not a state. Sat, chit,Ananda, or being, awareness, and bliss, are always present, although veiled by egoic states. In another video, Spira notes that happiness really derives from the quieting of the mind and the uprush of our basic nature when desires are fulfilled (and before the mind gets bored and starts seeking a new object). Wikipedia: Satcitananda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Satchitananda (IAST: Satcitānanda) or Sacchidananda representing "existence, consciousness, and bliss" or "truth, consciousness, bliss", is an epithet and description for the subjective experience of the ultimate, unchanging reality in Hinduism called Brahman.
I see no point to this teaching. Theres utterly no difference between relaxing as awareness versus just relaxing. Whats the point of one whos heard this teaching who is relaxing versus one who hasent and is relaxing? How do I realize I am eternally aware by just relaxing? It makes no sense
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The question about awareness is…so what? It’s like when people say “everything is made of energy” Or all books are made out of paper and ink…. So what?
Terry D I don’t get that at all. What I get is he’s trying really really hard to explain something that technically doesn’t exist in the material world. I think he gets an A for effort and does more than most who simply talk about, I get that he’s actually trying to convey the message. The challenge is application and making the experience real for people but I’ve found a few videos where he does a pretty good job of it.
Awareness or consciousness is just a watcher of our mental activities.. It is watching when we are awake, in deep sleep and in dream stage.. In deep sleep, there is nothing to watch since there is no any mental activities.. it watch Nothingness in mental screen during deep sleep..
I discovered this method by chance recently and it completely changed my life. I’m now meditating 24 hours a day and understand all teachings from Buddhism, to Advaita, even those from theistic religions like Christianity so clearly I can no longer remember why or what was ever unclear. I’m free to be myself completely without ever experiencing any disturbance of mind because this unconditioned awareness is imperturbable. It is confident, energetic, clear, and stable. It is nothing like the deep states of meditation I used to pursue, attain, and then suffer when they would fall apart at the slightest distraction. Awareness itself is the direct, immediate path out of delusion and its consequence of suffering. For me, it was like I suddenly remembered ultimately reality, which is just this ever present, unborn, indestructible awareness
Can you briefly state how do u stand as awareness 24hrs? I need some practical advice
Flowery words. Purity of mind is one pre-conditioning for choice-less awareness. If you think you are aware of being aware, by mistake, after feeling blank state of mind for different reasons, you should examine it carefully.
I never thought about it !! i was thinking emptiness of mind is the awareness but awareness is aware of the emptiness !!
I think awareness and emptiness are the same thing but Awareness is in the probing mode.
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the mind likes to zoom in, while zooming back is a return to awareness
Exactly sir!
Hey! Very good analogy! X
Well said!
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yes this is true but awareness is ever present even during the zoomed in state of attention
Zooming back is also the activity of the mind... But the awareness of this zooming is the 'I'.
I can tell the difference real easily because a deep, peaceful happiness fills me when I find my essential nature, & the cessation of thoughts without awareness is kind of neutral & blank.
I feel like my consciousness takes an uptick when I listen to this man. Thank you.
In Eastern traditions this could be designated as the "Transmission".
@@kwixotic Yes, in Indian traditions. In Tibetan Buddhism it's . . . the "pointing out instruction".
When I close my eyes and sense the "being" of myself there's what I perceive as an accompanying "experience of a contented being". THAT is the presence of Awareness and other than state it in this fashion, it's indefinable.
I notice notice that there is certain similarity between “awareness of being” as explained by Rupert and the Buddhist concept of “mindfulness” provided that we don’t comment any thing that we are mindful of. In other word we just acknowledge every thing that appear in our consciousness without using any word to describe it.
Noticing what we comes up and leaving it alone.
after many years of searching for this truth, i feel so blessed to have come across Ruperts direct approach and understanding of pure knowing and self
What's next?
That's a great question.
Thank you
This is golden knowledge for me (dualisticly spoken), thanks thanks
Awareness seems to be a very centered calming simple sense of being..There is no true explanation of it. .. it exist for me as “ just is “ without questions ..
“ to BE awareness is to KNOW awareness ”
“ BEING ourserves & KNOWING ourselves is the same experience, so don’t try to know or find the presence of awareness “
Thats what we call self- luminosity of awareness
Awareness is the light and attention is where the light is directed.
damn ruperts good. thats 100% beef no filler.
Always
*From the video:*
Don't look with your attention for the presense of awareness.
Attention can only be directed away from awareness towards an object.
That is the purpose of attention.
When awareness wants to know something other than itself it rises in the form of attention and directs itself towards an object but that's what's attention is for. Attending to objects.
Attention is the stretching of awareness towards an object but awareness doesn't have to stretch itself towards itself.
If I said take a step away from yourself, you can't really do it.
Attention never really leaves awareness but awareness only needs to rise in the form of attention and stretch itself towards the object whether the object is a thought, feeling, a sensation, or a perception.
But to know itself, it doesn't need to rise in the form of attention. It just remains resting in itself.
To be awareness is to know awareness. They are the same experience.
Don't try to know or find the presence of awareness.
You can only know or find that which is apparently not awareness.
Think of awareness like a disease that you can only know by its symptoms. You can’t actually know the disease itself.
Symptoms are peace and happiness.
They reverberates in the body-mind.
Thank you so much. You must have been an excellent note taker at uni.
@@DuongTran-mh7ci
You're welcome.
No, actually vice versa :))
Just I have written his words.
You cant look for awareness, but you can be aware of awareness by being aware of sensation in your body which is the reaction of the external stimuli like light, sound, smell, taste, touch on your sense organs. When you look at a tree, reflected light falls on the retina in the form of colour of a particular wavelength hitting the retina, an impulse is sent to the brain where a particular sensation is produced. This sensation is not possible without awareness. At this stage this sensation signals the awareness of the presence of an object finally identified as a tree. But the sensation stage is only the awareness of something present which means this sensation is the result of awareness which is directed to the direction of the object. At this sensation stage, the directed awareness only “knows” there is something which is the result of awareness+ attention, the two conditions for this knowing. Only after the perception stage, which involves memory and cognition, the” something “ above is identified and labelled as a tree. This final stage usually known as consciousness which simply means “seeing “ a tree. So to know awareness is to be aware of the sensation produced by the two conditions awareness+attention and of course you can also count light as a condition in case of a visual object. You cant purposefully look for awareness and see it as if awareness is an object.
The book on the table is "The Light of Pure Knowing" by Rupert Spira if anyone is curious:)
Thankyou 🙏
Are you aware? Wow, so simple but profound.
Bahut.bahut.gretitude.abhar.Dr.Rupert.Spira.bahut.bahut.dhanyabad.thanks.for.wonderful.understanding.
Taking a step to yourself!
Hearing this I remember a conversation between Buddha and his brother disciple Ananda read long back.
Ananda when he took sanyasa and was about to become a monk he requested Buddha that he should be allowed to sleep in the same room where Buddha sleeps. Buddha accepted with one condition that he should remain silent and avoid disturbing or ask any questions.
So after very many years and Buddha was to about to leave his body, and Ananda asked Buddha for a very longtime I have a doubt and if I miss this opportunity I may not get the right answer so please help me clear my doubt.
So Ananda said all along for years We both were sleeping in the same room and I never saw you, not even once, changing you body position in your sleep and couldn’t understand how Buddha could remain in the very same position he went to sleep the whole night.
Buddha said while sleeping if he needed to turn to the other side or change his position he would do so simply within. Such was Buddha’s non attachment with his body🙏
Joy and Happiness ... count me in.
after 15 yrs of TM, and 10 of zazen I have to share that the essence of Ruperts pointing is perfect. it's sounds simple, the effortlessness of this approach, but it is beyond subtle, and I for one always need reassurance and validation and Rupert nails it. Rupert is not my teacher but I have read all his books and have been following him for years now and he is godsent.
I particularly like this one. *NOT* searching for some . . . objective (or goal) that means awareness, happiness, mindfulness, etc etc etc.
I was creating an empty space object before and i was restless now i understand it is relaxing even from that
Beautifully clear!
I watched a 1000 times this video through the years and today it blew my mind :D .
It can be pretty hard for the mind to grasp. Actually, I'm not sure if my mind can grasp it at all. haha
@@awakenow7147 Ahhh same! But I'm so so close. I say that alot but aaaah so close, better than ever. When he said "you can't know the disease itself only the symptoms" I was like Ooooooohhhh that's a good analogy.
Ohh i saved this video And i also go on watching watching Maby maby i grasp at a good day thnk you
Happiness is an experience....awareness is no experience
Thx rupert
Wahwah AhaAha DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude dhanyabad dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad Rupertspira
Thank you...Thank you...Thank you...
The breath is not what you are looking for, so why did the Buddha and many enlightened people suggest long periods of observing the breath? This is not sarcastic rhetoric but a sincere question. Cheers.
That’s a different path. There are many portals to enlightenment.
@@ceeIoc It's even better than that: there are many enlightenments . . .
I tried buddha path through teacher Goenka yes, it's TRUE we direct our attention to breath then to our sensations....in fact we call it Vipassana. Its a path to enlightenment but it is indirect. Looking at this direct path thought by Sri Ramana maharshi, Krishna, Nargasaddat marahaj and now rupert spira we find it's a direct path to enlightenment. It's so far very simple and easy to be if REALLY IT CLICKS. The challenge with direct path is its simplicity. Cheers teacher or sage @rupert
5:24 .. wow! 💗
Great explanation!
Wow I needed 2 hear that !
Thank You Sir, we love your "Light of Pure Knowing".
Meditation CD's together with beautiful book presentation a plus gift to our learnings
Transcript is very helpful to us, reading further us in depth, intuitive contact with
"Overmind" awareness in Light A loving presence, being here Om
God Bless
Is this audio set itself or something else?
Salutations 🙏
I have no idea what I’m talking about but what comes to mind is “you can’t use the Buddha to seek the Buddha.”
I have some problems with what Rupert says here....
He says not to focus on a blank mind but if the mind is actually blank, how can we focus on it? Is it possible to focus on emptiness itself? I don't think so, only the idea of emptiness can be focussed on. Surely if the mind is completely silent then all that is left is unfocussed awareness.....?
And the 'experience of being aware' - it strikes me that experience and awareness are synonymous. Is there an experience of not being aware? Is there awareness without experience? To say I am aware is to say I am experiencing.
I realise he is trying to point to the awareness of awareness, this curious feedback loop to infinity that we experience as consciousness....maybe I've answered my own question there.
Has anyone actually reached the joy, happiness and peace that this path is supposed to bring one to?
Nice and honest comment. Your comment helps me to reflect on my own journey too. ❤😊
They say, the journey to Self-realisation / enlightenment / awakening can last for many many incarnations. There is no time limit... that it has to happen in this life or next life, etc. Rupert sais it somewhere, that even the post-enlightenment period, the truly sinking deeper and deeper into "Being"/into "Awareness"... will last forever as well... ❤😊❤
Oooh. Is this what Rupert means by there is not nothing, 'there is experiencing'.? As in, not our personal experiencing but itself alone?
Yup only happenings, seeing, hearing, talking, feeling, loving... no one particular to whom it happens except Awarness coz 'we' are awareness itself...
I wish so much i could understand
@@chimenerf We each have individual ways that we do something OTHER than what Spira is talking about. So don't be bummed. I recommend you keep checking out various "pointers" that different teachers offer . . . until you find one that works for your individual history. One that works for some people is called the "headless way". Maybe it's one that will work for you: ua-cam.com/video/5jYbDFyLhgI/v-deo.html
QED thank you so much i am going to checkout many thks and a nice weekend
Thank you
This is awesome
🌷🌷🙏thank you
It's discernment
Yes, old school language . . . has its virtues.
Wild goose chase
So Are we conscious if the presence of awareness?
Awareness feels like it's located in my head as emptiness and that's who I am observing the world out there? Is this enlightenment?
No, that’s the illusory state. In Self realization there is no “center”- you are located just as much in the trees and the mountains and sounds as you are within your head. That’s because everything you perceive is within your awareness and this awareness has no location- it’s everywhere and nowhere.
When you are enlightened you know it for sure. If you have doubt or have questions you havent reached that.
Pure awareness is boundless, your mind can never grasp it because it's not an object, your mind only has two tracks, past and future, it can never taste the present moment and that's the only place you can get a taste of awareness.
Thats the hard problem facing mankind right now, everything else like going to the moon, Mars, are easy problems. Neuroscientists are trying to prove that the brain is the seat of awareness, but in vain. The brain doesnt produce awareness. Awareness is an activity of the brain. Awareness is the result of the brain reacting with external stimuli like sounds, sights, taste, smells, touch, ideas to produce awareness of sounds, sights, tastes. smells, touch, ideas. That’s awareness. But the physical basis ie the brain + external stimuli alone are not enough to produce awareness. Its like a mechanical toy car cant move by itself without electricity or the potential energy stored in the spring inside the toy. Thats it, there must be energy to activate the whole process of producing awareness of sound, sights, tastes etc.
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Sounds like you have separated but in dualistic awareness
I have a question why doesn't the realization dawn even though I remain perfectly still and thoughtless . Even the question may seem to be ridiculous?
@John Mathew: It's not at ALL simple. We each have individual ways that we do something OTHER than what Spira is talking about. So don't be bummed. I recommend you keep checking out various "pointers" that different teachers offer . . . until you find one that works for your individual history. Here's one, that works for some people. Imagine that you look through a window . . . and what you see out there is "perfectly still and thoughtless". Okay (?) Now . . . what if I tap the window glass (?) How does that change where you look (?) See if you can maybe find the equivalent of that for awareness in general . . .
@@QED_ The actual realization of awareness is the simplest possible thing ever. The mind complicates.
One who looks is 'Awareness'.
Yes sir
Awareness aware of itself...
🔥🔥🔥
Then self directed attention or more accurately self investigation should put one in touch with the Awarenes, yes?
The easiest way to understand it...
You are awareness.
Simply relax and be aware of the experience unfolding what trips us up is that this practice is so simple we think "how can this be it???" The mind ironically wants something more complex...
Just relax and just be aware of the nowness of the moment of the feeling of the body and senses without projecting opinions on the experience.
Simply rest as yourself in the experience .
When I say be aware..
I mean just notice. This will take you all the way to liberation (of course its already here)
My method is, I am aware of feelings, emotions and thoughts but I am not feeling, emotion or thought. Practically to do this you must have sensitivity and will power. You must sit and observe what is happening inside. At every moment we are identified automatically with many processes inside, 95% of which run subconsiously. What you can do is, when you observe attentively, wait when system will be identified with new feeling, emotion or thought and your condition will change. You must be able to sense that you feel bad because you are identified with that feeling. If you can sense that then just apply above formula. I am not this feeling. You must be able to sense that at that moment you are that feeling. If you can sense that you can break that identification. The difficult thing is to sense the identification. Actually the difficult and long path of Ashtanga yoga is exactly intended to improve this sensitivity.
Does the “stepping away from or towards yourself” analogy work even? 🤔. Isn’t that a dualistic analogy? Because if you’re stepping towards someone(the self), you are also stepping away from someone (the Self). Can someone with a good understanding on no duality explain that to me? I need to take a Tylenol.
Or can’t she take a step towards Rupert and say she took a step toward her “Self”? Since we’re ultimately “one”?
I think this is how the metaphor works. You cant take a step forward to yourself neither take a step away from yourself. At the same time you cant focus on awareness neither take your attention away from awareness...as soon as you put your attention on awareness you have turned it into a thought, an object. Awareness is just the experience of being aware. This is why being and knowing are the same experience.
Horacio Quirno when you say “attention”, are you referring to the mind? Or thought?
It’s so close we can not even see it
Cessation of mental thoughts and the relaxation or withdrawal of attention back into simple awareness may well be happiness inducing, and closer to pure Witness state, however the integration of our individuality and Universality are higher Samadhis than this. After all who experiences happiness? ~ another subjective state that stands in contrast or duality with unhappiness. Pure Being is transcendent and immanent. Untroubled awareness at all levels and times. These carefully managed practices are not effortless or giving true Sahaja Samadhi. Opinions and experiences require a new state of Collective Consciousness to inform, discern and discriminate truly. Fortunately it is already manifesting for many that spontaneously they are entering and sustaining this evolutionary jump that is not dependent on rigorous mental controls.
There is no 'I' in team, LOL
+Paul Pavan Keetley Happiness and unhappiness may be states, but ananda, or bliss, is not a state. Sat, chit,Ananda, or being, awareness, and bliss, are always present, although veiled by egoic states.
In another video, Spira notes that happiness really derives from the quieting of the mind and the uprush of our basic nature when desires are fulfilled (and before the mind gets bored and starts seeking a new object).
Wikipedia: Satcitananda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Satchitananda (IAST: Satcitānanda) or Sacchidananda representing "existence, consciousness, and bliss" or "truth, consciousness, bliss", is an epithet and description for the subjective experience of the ultimate, unchanging reality in Hinduism called Brahman.
I see no point to this teaching.
Theres utterly no difference between relaxing as awareness versus just relaxing.
Whats the point of one whos heard this teaching who is relaxing versus one who hasent and is relaxing?
How do I realize I am eternally aware by just relaxing? It makes no sense
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The question about awareness is…so what?
It’s like when people say “everything is made of energy”
Or all books are made out of paper and ink….
So what?
"I will infect you with my happiness."
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Everything is made out of awareness.
And all baseball bats are made of wood.
Now…get a life.
Why are you describing and giving instructions? You are doing the very thing you are saying not to do.
He’s not meditating. He’s teaching.
I get the impression Rupert is dyslexic, has trouble expressing his thoughts compared to other Advaita teachers
Terry D I don’t get that at all.
What I get is he’s trying really really hard to explain something that technically doesn’t exist in the material world. I think he gets an A for effort and does more than most who simply talk about, I get that he’s actually trying to convey the message.
The challenge is application and making the experience real for people but I’ve found a few videos where he does a pretty good job of it.
Awareness or consciousness is just a watcher of our mental activities.. It is watching when we are awake, in deep sleep and in dream stage.. In deep sleep, there is nothing to watch since there is no any mental activities.. it watch Nothingness in mental screen during deep sleep..