How Can I Pray Without Ceasing?
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- A woman who had given up attempting to pray without ceasing after many years of devotional practice has decided to try again after recently hearing Rupert talk on the subject. She asks him for guidance.
Rupert says: ‘Like you, I spent a lot of time trying to pray unceasingly and found it frustrating. I noticed that I continually forgot God’s presence because I was giving my attention to something else. I then realised that praying without ceasing is not literally repeating something in your mind, but an attitude of the heart.
‘Later, when I recognised that there is no being in me other than God’s being, I saw that the idea that I could somehow pray or have this attitude towards God was still coming from the sense of separation. This made it clear to me that praying without ceasing is not something we have to do, it is what we are.
‘We are this unceasing prayer, this devotion to itself. It doesn’t have to be something we do with our thoughts or even an attitude of the heart, although both are beautiful. To pray without ceasing ultimately means just the shining of being in the midst of experience. Right now, being is shining in the midst of experience - that’s God’s presence.’
*This video is taken from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Garrison Institute, 10-17 October 2021. To view and book for upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Way of a Pilgrim
0:55 The Philokalia
1:49 Sufi Chanting
2:42 There Is No Reality except God
3:12 The Practice of the Presence of God
4:25 How Can I Pray without Ceasing?
5:26 Paramatman
7:00 Forgetting God’s Presence
7:33 The Shankaracharya’s Prayer
9:20 What Does ‘I Am’ Refer To?
10:52 The Sense of Separation
11:32 Our Being Is God’s Being
12:42 Prayer Is Not Something We Do
14:08 The End of Effort
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THE PRAYER:
Oh my Lord, my whole being is yourself.
This mind which has been given me is your consort.
The life force, breath, and energy which you have given me are your attendants.
This body is the temple in which I worship you.
Whatever I eat, wear, or do, are all part of the worship I keep performing at this temple.
Even when this body goes to sleep at night I feel I am in union with you.
Whenever I walk I feel that I am going on pilgrimage to you.
What ever I speak is all in praise of you.
In fact, whatever I do in this world in any way is all aimed at you.
So there is no duality in this life of union with yourself.
I have no words to thank you for this. You are another person as being giving us this writing when we needed it.👏
@@terefefeyssa877 Thanks be to God 🥰
Thank you for sharing this beautiful prayer.
thank you ❤
Thank you for sharing this prayer
I don't know how one could more sensitiively honor the sincerity of this question and explore its depth with equal reverence for the teachings and ones personal revelation than Rupert has done here. Such wedding of devotion and eloquence. Amen.
Please accept my deep sense of gratitude for you Rupert Sir 🙏🏻
The Shining of Being, I AM, the Isness of all things, the AMness of all beings.
I’m crying with this sweet lady 🥲🙏🏻🫶🏻♥️♥️♥️ so so beautifully put and so deeply felt this share was for me . Namaste! Rupert 🙏🏻🫶🏻♥️
What a sweet kind lady, I want to hug her ! :)
And Rupert. 😅
Me too!
I just think it is so wild how Rupert Spira seems to have so totally hit upon the way to speak of these topics in such a clear, contemporary, simple, experiential manner that both totally validates all the classic literature, but just brings it all up to date without anything "supernatural" or "metaphysical". Just the "be here now" the "no-self/no-thing" the "Al-Llah" (in this video)... wow! It is all so validating, confirming, encouraging, instructive and directive in the best way.
I totally agree wholeheartedly ❤
Is not that awe that we experience also G_d's Being?
@@KeithFail2 Yes. Awe is the way in, it seems...
Whoever gets connected with Rupert, he or she is truly blessed🙏 Gurubhyo Namaha🙏 What a great spiritual master Rupert is! All that knowledge of Advaita which was theory became living experience for me after I started following Rupert sometime back.
What makes you so sure?
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This was wonderful! I want to share that recently I have begun praying in a way that feels good to me. During the day I utter phrases as they occur which are like: I shine as Pat Palmer; I radiate Joy through Pat Palmer; I am unlimited in Pat Palmer; I am Love as Pat Palmer. This perspective allows me to realize over and over that I am not my illusory self. My conditioned self is just a vehicle for presence to be aware as it.
So good to hear you PatPalmer 3:59 am
It reaches my heart. Thank you j,Rupert.
Having never left the house, we are looking for the way home. ~ Nisargadatta
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There are few statements, that, Nisargadatta has made, that would put Rupert and others alike out of business for good.
Not only it would put almost all, if not all non-duality circles out of business, but, it would put selling God out of business.
Nisargadatta's statements concerning the Absolute Nature of Existence makes it impossible for religion and its ideologies to survive.
Statement 1 "The Absolute is prior to consciouness ".
Statement 2. " The Absolute, being prior to consciousness I AM , prior to the knowledge I AM, doesn't know that IT IS". (He negates all knowledge, including all self knowledge)
Statement 3 " The Absolute is prior to God (Brahman )". ( he also acknowledged that people refer to consciousness as God). Putting an end to selling the deity God or consciouness as the Absolute Truth of Existence.
Statement 4 " knowing, knowingness or knowledge are all fraudulent, it is the knowing that has brought all the mischief in the world ".
Statement 5 " It is consciouness, knowingness, which is the knowledge "I AM" that appears first, and disappears last". ( That knowledge "I AM" , is what Rupert and others have been marketing and selling as the Absolute Truth of Existence) ,originating from religion and its ideology.
Statement 6 " There is no such thing as an experience of Reality (The Absolute ). This makes it impossible for anyone to market using experience or claming something experiential, concerning the Absolute Truth of Existence.
Somebody like Rupert or others alike might wonder, what is it that knows the Absolute?
And, Nisargadatta rebukes simply by saying that the question itself is coming from Ignorance.
Because, consciouness being the only instrument of knowledge , who or what is there to question prior to the instrument of knowledge? That is prior to consciousness .
Makes it impossible to question, once its understood.
If you examine Nisargadatta' s understanding, it is closer to science than, religious or spiritual ideologies.
These statements shows, when it comes to the Absolute, it has absolutely nothing to do, with religions, religious ideologies, most non-duality teachings selling God or consciouness.
The simplicity concerning the Absolute is simply astounding to say the least.
Many are busy marketing many claims, all claiming to know the Truth of Existence as how it really is.
Self deception comes in many forms. Often as ear candies like sweet poems, pleasing the ear, but, to only end up in deceiving oneself and Existence Itself.
One can never be too careful, or contemplative enough when it comes to the Absolute true nature of oneself or Existence as Is in Itself.
@@joajoajbI’m assuming mediation is the boat that takes you to this unspoken presence that underlies everything including consciousness?
@@ahmednasser9962 Without the instrument of knowledge or consciouness, who or what is there to meditate on what?
Consciouness in the form of religion and its ideologies, personifying itself as a Deity has done more damages to humanity throughout history and it continues. It has no place, when it comes to the Absolute.
All fears of death, is actually coming from consciouness fearing its own disappearance, fearing the end of experience, losing the knowledge of its own existence. As if refusing to return to the Absolute by surviving with some subtle something experiential, indicating its existence.
It may succeed in projecting all sorts of subtle experiences to perpetuate experience. I had numerous obes when I was little. Consciousness can projec all sorts of subtle experiences easily and instantly in that state. It can survive many subtle states to perpetuate experience.
It's helpful to understand consciouness as the shadow of the Absolute. Just like your shadow, when you go outside. A shadow which distorts Reality by its own nature. Whenever there's consciouness, there's suffering.
Countless life forms are being eaten alive at this moment, and every moment, screaming in pain from the top of their lungs to absolutely no avail and yet, it's driven to survive. By what?
By consciouness Itself, fearing the disappearance of experience which is its very nature. The shadow.
If Nisargadatta is correct, then, the disappearance of consciouness , absolutely guarantees the end of suffering, which is the end of experience. But. If consciouness is still there, then, experience is still there, ready to project . Obviously.
It is very likely that life and its survival function on self deception. In that sense, we can say consciouness is life.
Self deception comes countless forms, selling experience as the mother commodity, often as ear and eye candies to insure its survival .
The Absolute Nature of Existence is most likely prior to experience.
We can never be too careful or be contemplative enough , when it comes to the Absolute true nature of ourselves or Existence as It really Is in Itself.
You take good care of yourself!
@@ahmednasser9962 In a way ,yes and no. Meditation only from the point of view of consciouness. After all, consciouness has the capacity to reflect on Itself for all kinds of self knowledge, often, disagreeing on its own experience thru many individuals. Being a shadow, distorting the Absolute, it's unstable and, it's nature is suffering.
As one brutally honest philosopher put it " Every history of life is the history of suffering ". In that sense, we can say that consciouness is life.
Whenever there's suffering, there's consciouness. No experience of suffering is possible in the absence of consciouness. Very obvious.
It is highly likely, that life that drives survival, functions on self deception. By consciouness, thru consciounessand as consciouness. .
One can never be too careful, or be contemplative enough, when it comes to the Absolute true nature of oneself or Existence as Is in Itself.
You take good care of yourself!
‘The Way of the Pilgrim’ is discussed eloquently by Jim Finley of the CCC (the Centre of Contemplation and Action of Fr Richard Rohr) …The Way of the Mystics .
I know that staying in the Heart is all there is to do. Listen to the All with the Heart. It brings you effortlessly into this moment with without needing to apply mind based concentration. It’s still hard for me to do continuously but it grows each day.
This all used to sound so mystical and esoteric. It's now just so obviously simple. So thankful for teachers like Rupert
Wonderful, Rupert. Just wonderful. ❤
Thank you “ Rupert “
What a beautiful prayer; and a wonderful response to the question!
This questioner, Judith, is a gift to us all! ❤ Thank you for asking this important question so eloquently! I wept too.
Beautiful
Beautiful!
Beautiful ……
😇GVB ❤ Doesn't it require a personal. Indwelling relationship with a higher level. (giving always room to grow and evolve)) ❤
Thank you so much Rupert ❤🙏🕉️
Thank you Rupert ❤
Beautiful!! God Bless to ALL🙏❤️
I have been fond of Shankara and Advaita Vedanta since my college days. What follows is not mine. It is something I found just now with some online research using today's amazing handheld computers called smartphones.
In Hindu belief, the title "Shankaracharya" is traditionally associated with the leader of four monasteries (mathas) established by Adi Shankaracharya, a revered philosopher and theologian who lived in the 8th century. The Shankaracharyas are considered to be spiritual successors of Adi Shankaracharya rather than reincarnations of specific persons or deities. Therefore, Shantananda Saraswati would be seen as a spiritual leader in the lineage of Adi Shankaracharya rather than a reincarnation of a particular person or deity.
And Shankara is synonymous with Shiva, ‘acharya’ meaning’teacher’.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for the beautiful question and even more beautiful answer!
THANK YOU 🕊️
Thank you so much 🌟🙏💙
Vyasa would be proud of Rupert
She's freed from the load of miss interpretations
There is LOVE thank you
By Gods grace, there was a time when i experienced an unceasing prayer. This was when the heart was beating with Gods name constantly, unceasingly. No matter what i was occuopied with, i would stop and check by just being silent and still, and i would hear, sense and feel the heart reverberating with the the name of God - Allah, Allah, Allah, on its own without me initiating it in anyway. All praise and than thanks be to God for that.
Yes that is a high station in Sufism, as was my initiation.
A wonderful man spent time in a room with Ghandi & heard ‘Ram’ continually reverberating… looking for the source of this silent emission of the name of God he realized it emanated from Ghandi himself, having repeatedly it inwardly until it was his vibration
Thank you so much Rupert ☀️🙏✨💛✨🌻
I’m so deeply moved by this beautiful dialogue. Thank you🥹
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Rupert were truly blessed to hear ur dialogs. You make it real. Thx u dearl4❤y
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Yes! Being is all.
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Its hard to acknowledge that everything is gods being, but even tbat is no task, as gods being is just a name gods being is giving to itself, the same as i am ness is a name gods being is giving to itself, so there is no job at all
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Yes,we keep evolving. Hope that evolving leads to be aware of " who am I ".
Guys,can anyone help me that who is this "me" in me?
That which is aware-of your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and sensations. That which is aware of those parts of your experience.
I am, but what is this "I" that I am? It is Awareness. It is the Subject for whom everything is an Object, even the ego.
In the same way that you cannot see your eyes, you cannot know yourself through the mind, you can only BE IT.
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