Meditation: Come Back to Yourself
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2019
- In this meditation we investigate ourself, the element of experience that is always present, and allow the objective elements of experience to fade into the background. We rest our attention in this ever-present 'I'.
From the seven day retreat at Buckland Hall, winter 2018.
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I used to watch Mooji videos until I discovered Rupert. I feel that Rupert goes deeper and it's refreshing that he dosn't set himself up as a guru with a following that worships him.
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Yeah, I find the pomp and ceremony off putting and it can endorse the myth of self and other
@@Janeoffools they just naturally come and it's just events. It's really not a big deal tbh
There are those who are rather Jnana-based and prefer study and practices more. There are also those who are Bhakti-based who gravitate towards devotion. They may be different approaches and some do both or crossover, but they reach the same ocean.
You could say that the devotion some have for a Guru, like Mooji, is the candle flame for the moth that attracts them to the teachings he presents, while the seeking of knowledge and practices one might obtain from teachers like Rupert, et al, are another kind of candle.
The seeker vanishes in the search.
Ernest Weber
True devotion is to the 'here now', not a guru. A worthwhile teacher would make that distinction very clear
@Joe Serianz , and the drama continues... 😉😁
I think children should be given the chance of this kind of teaching!
I just love the depth of your words. You are a living example of what it is like to live with full awareness of presence.
Dear "Rupert". Thanks a million times. After so many years and practices... It was so simple...I have alwasys been here... As the song goes..."I can see clearly now the rain has gone....It is gonna be alright...Sunshiny day..
It is so good to come back to you after some time. Beloved teacher and guide. Thank you.
So soothing he takes you direct to your source. Peace emanates through him in waves. Ive had insomnia all my life to the point of suicidal well i did try to take my life. Rupert has cured it! I know it me helping me lol but for words sake you know what I mean. So grateful to be going too see him in Nov.
Revelation just is... And we are.. May all Beings find This Peace...This Joy...This Happiness..This Presence..This Silence of Being 😊🙏
(resume) Don't touch the feeling (sadness, boredom, hunger, being in love, depressed), but emphasise the 'I am" aspect of your experience instead of it's content, let the objective content of your experience fade into the background and emphasise your Being, your self, not your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. I am not a bundle of thoughts (thus beliefs and conditioned reactions), perceptions and feelings, I am the space in which they come and go (the screen vs the movie).
Most people live in their thoughts, actions, relationships, life situations rather than abiding in the self; they get totally absorbed by the movie, not aware of the being. When I say: Be aware of the being, it implies that there's a difference between being and we who is aware of it. That is not meant to be. The I that I am is the same one that the I that knows it is aware. Our own being knows itself, it's self-aware / self-knowing. Our own being is not known by anything other than itself. Being is the best known experience there is but most people are so fascinated by the content of their experience that they overlook the being. It's just buried under layers of experience. For the one that is lost in the drama of experience (relating, acting, thinking,...), the being is so thoroughly mixed with experience that it becomes invisible. Enlightenment is the recognition, the revelation of the nature of our essential being, a being that we already are but that is obscured by experience. So awakening is the recognition of the nature of our being that lies in the heart of all experience. Ask yourself: What is the nature of myself before my self is qualified / conditioned by experience? Who is the I that remains the same when awake, dreaming or deep sleeping? What remains always the same throughout all our life experiences? (The screen, not the movie, but in fact the screen and the movie)
Thanks!
Very nice
I understand all that you have said. But this “Being” has no motivation to take action. What is going to wash the dishes carry water earn a living take a shower or do the wash? Whose to take care of the body?
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Veronica Maggio many people get stuck here. Nothing is wasted in knowing the true self. When someone is vacuuming, washing the dishes, attending a funeral or changing a diaper that is part of the whole experience of existing in the world of form. People who are awakened are everywhere doing ordinary activities. Whatever we are doing is just what is happening. Our activities are a demonstration of our uniqueness. However, it is not what we do, but how we do it that is the essence of who we are. Simple tasks become part of the joy in being alive when we no longer label them as chores or they can remain chores and we just grind through them. The most important thing is to be aware of your experience. Only then can you know who you are. If you are resisting something you can explore who is resisting it. Everything is just what is happening. Activities can be done or not done. If you choose not to do them, then see what arises. Is there fear that your house will become a mess, that you won’t earn money to have food or that you will be judged by others depending on what actions you take? Sit with everything that arises and then you will know what is right for you. Maybe, like me you quit dusting forever. Maybe you put your time into gardening and volunteering and earning less and you allow or be the watcher as people have their own responses to your choices. Freedom is not free. Freedom means you give up minding what others think and feel. They are free also to have their own responses to your choices. Many people shy away from becoming awakened when they realize there is something to be lost before something is gained . When one is willing to go there and stops minding what the world thinks, then this is liberating, but many simply can’t break free of being a slave to expectations of others or they want others to be OK with their choices and this is also expecting which is attachment. Who is forcing you to do anything? Only you. In order to know all of the deeper I, it must be experienced for itself. Nothing matters all that much, but we act like it does because we play out the roles on the screen and read a script instead of going within and finding our own dialogue and actions. In order to know who we are we must drop many things. Try not doing the things you mentioned and see how it feels. Who is anxious? The one who is anxious doesn’t exist. It is just a fleeting emotion , perception or sensation that is impermanent. The only thing that never changes is your awareness “behind “ all that ( the screen) . We are here to live life as fully as we can and for each person this is different experience. It’s al perfectly fine. For some, living fully means routine and family, for others it is adventure and risk. As Shakespeare said, “Nothing is good or bad, only thinking makes it so.”
maryrose mitchell This was a very thoughtful response. What was this in response to. I did not comment on this particular video.
Thank you, Rupert Spira. I love listening to your voice.
Dhanyabad dhanyabad dhanyabad thanksgretitude for wonderful Meditation thanks Rupert spira
So true, so loving, so direct. Thank you soo much Rupert!
Coming fully back to yourself is the most natural yet challenging thing to do
No action here. It always is. It is recognizing.
Authentic Self Guide hardest thing to do ever
@@Poplovestar23 it is perceived as the hardest thing ever because we try and "do" this through our ego-delusional illusory center of a false "self". it is in fact the easiest most simple experience in existence yet is just the most veiled and covered up in all of existence as well. so instead of looking at it as a difficult task to be completed, it is more like shifting perspectives to look at it all beneath the veil of maya, behind the illusion that is so pervasive.
@@kodycox6780 Yes, and it is also "hard" because the pull of identification with mind-body-world is stronger than that for liberation...
@@sathya999 Or because of the long unconscious momentum, the familiarity of being pulled into identification, which is our default mode until we wake-up.
Clearest meditation back to the self i have ever heard. Thank you so much for sharing, beautiful!
Thank you so much, Rupert. Your spiritual light is also reaching here, in Brazil. Blessings to you.
And in Denmark, too. I'm so grateful for his teachings and meditations - and books as well 🙏🏻
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And in Mozambique too
Nepal too
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Wonderful start to the day. What a gift, present in the presence,❤️
Thank you 🙏. These meditations have been the greatest blessing. I’m finding the key to my being.
I find this is such a precious guidance into Reality, especially when I feel locked down in illusive dreams during daytime!
Love, relationship, friendship, beauty...all are concepts of a separate self...
Super! As always!❤️True Advaita guru of our times!🙏
You help every body
You are the TEACHER
SPACE IS MY BODY!!!!
I STAY HERE!!!!!
I AM!!!!!!!
Imagine when you were born, the first moment we opened our eyes it was inside a greater space.
Amazing work by Rupert, as always.
When You Hear The Truth... You Get A Feelin Of Connection... "DAMM" THIS DEEP!👁️
The “i am” in me thanks you so very much indeed. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It is very easy to be aware of Being.
he just said it all. 🌈💗
Thank you Rupert giving us your wonderful simple powerful nourishing divine teaching. Looking forward to meeting you soon 🙏🙏🙏.
Beautiful. Turned my eye backwards. So powerful. 🙏🇨🇦❤️🌈🌎🦋🏄♀️
Thank you so much Rupert ❤🙏
It is not easy to put all this into words, that is why I am so grateful that you have!❤
Many, many thanks and blessings. 🧡
Thank you!
Thank you so much, Rupert! ❤️
Thank you Rupi! Amazing.
To me all the guru are good love Rupert he talking nicely and sharing all message from the all experience ❤
Consciousness makes the choice when to nail the pretence that the mind has made out of itself and trace it back to itself.
Listen to me... in all fairness the knowing 'I' of who we are is ONE that of which we borrow from to become individual experience to share. We are therefore, storytellers for the universe that makes us all.
Beautiful, be blessed Rupert for this amazing connection of awareness
thankss rupert, its so simple to feel it when you expain it
and also to feel a heaviness that pushes down on my being, making feeling intolerable... but you dont live my experience
@@MariaL1304 I think I have the same, kind of a feeling of unability to breathe that makes the stillness and do nothing moment intolerable
@@MariaL1304 you gota be brave and feel that heaviness and unconfortable expirience with bravery. It wont go away right away but the moment you truly want to feel what your feeling thats when the switch happens.
@@MariaL1304 we all live the same expirience we have just collected different thought and emotional patterns
Blown away by the end …. This way of being with self instead of … every other bloody thing! lol … distraction is our middle name … time to come home 💕🐉💕🥳
Thank you Rupert🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank u ❤
Thanks GOD🙏🙏🙏
He speaks the Truth, but it is always difficult to accept.
Beautiful
Thank You Rupert. :) Very helpfull.
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Best ADvaita explained Ramana atmananda nisargadatta Shree mataji summarised in a short essay
Thank you 🙏
i experience this most powerfully when doing exercise in very cold weather. I am not cold or in pain but my body is telling me it is and i can switch my awareness between the two
I agree it’s easier for me to with a physical trigger like cold or breathing
Wow a Super great one ! Thank you
A person searching for eternal beauty and he asks from people , where it is located , they said that here and there, inner and outer , this side and that side , this direction and that direction , this way and that way and some say every where .... but he asks to them that have you meet it ,if it is everywhere. Have you seen it if it is here and there . Have you feel it if it is inner or outer ... but people drop their eyes down, their face turned sad.. ........... people know everything without having it..............
Then he asks from animals and animals glare at his face with strange silence, then he asks from trees and trees remained silent , then he asks from flowers and flower remained in stillness ...then he asks sky and stars and all remained silent... then he understood that only one and same answer , just silence , just stillness. Then he turned to knowing masses with encyclopaedia of words in their heads and he left his attire of words to them and dived into stillness.
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Seria maravilhoso poder entender estes conhecimentos MARAVILHOSOS dublados em portugues, 🙏
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What a marvelous meditation!!!!
I need this rn. I’m so caught up in experience. It’s such a burden
Same
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"I’m so caught up in experience. It’s such a burden"...are just thoughts. The only mistake is the "me-stake"...that who you are is the body and the mind (thoughts). Stop giving attention to negative thoughts such as these. Of course it takes practice. The practice will happen when the desire for liberation is great enough. How much is it wanted? As much as a person being held underwater wants the next breath? When the desire is strong enough, the remembering and practice flow... It can be helpful to continuously chant internally "I am not the body, I am not the mind, there is no personal "I"... So many sages and saints point to the fact that spiritual practice has to be continuous to really yield results...
@@sathya999 Except this is the practice of not practicing. basically practicing being who you already were, to begin with.
It is good to know that you know what you need. Existence is being caught up in experience because without experiences and objects, etc. what is then left to be caught up in? Without struggling to get out of what just is, you find that the resistance to what is is more the point because what is what is just as it is.
These kinds of meditations sink right in and you can relax into the nature of it/you. If you are caught up in experience right now then that is what you are right now, so be that just as it is and as the awareness of it the burden is only relative to your concepts at that point.
Things are more like they are right now then they ever were before!
Maybe no one shoulld talk for while but just listen
That was Nirsargadatta Maraharaj's method. He'd often just sit there and say nothing for an entire "session". It was only for those who needed "training wheels" that he spoke.
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I Long to Know MySelf I am
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A soo beautiful clarity🙏🏽
What am I on right now? I feel high listening to this.
That space analogy really clicked. 🤗☄🏆🌞🛎☇🌻🌟💡💥🐥🔔💛
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Are We So Vain?
Haha, great stuff Rupert.
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I understand everything he says with my intellect, but that feeling of being connected to this deeper awareness is still missing somehow...When I meditate and able to quiet the mind for short periods of time, I still do not feel this inner peace... (I think I have felt it before though, just not during meditation). I’m not sure how to experience it more permanently and less randomly?
It reads like you are trying to find sth. Thats not there. All you are perceiving when you are experiencing yourself is already all that he is talking about.
It's difficult to come back to myself, I always have objective thoughts about myself......
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I Am
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Let I am be shown through the I just am that always is
It says “come back to yourself” but he also says “you can’t take a step towards yourself”.
I don't know if it is because I am bipolar but I cannot close my eyes without seeing intense imagery that continuously changes. It is distracting. I understand this imagery is the temporary stuff of thought but it interferes with the awareness of being.
Can you be conscious aware of I Am when you're a baby or foetus in the womb? I don't remember being aware as a baby. Is awareness a blank slate until a finite mind appears around the age of 2...?
Awareness is the only real substance and all there is.Time is a reflection of the limitations of the finite mind...
this limitation creates linear time, and the projection of being born and dying. Awareness does not have memory because memory is finite product of the mind, awareness is infinite and dimensionless it simply is.
thanks for this instruction Rupert, but how do I stay with myself in the turmoil of daily living and my eyes wide open?
Great question! I wish all teachers would give specific examples of staying in Awareness in the challenges of daily life, show us how to maintain the nonduality stance while being identified by our individual roles by the others we deal with.
Ask yourself, «is there awareness» or «am I aware» throughout the day
@@aLiveAware thank you Rupert❤
Spent a fortune on TM trying to find myself .when in actual fact i was already myself ,beware of so called spiritual gurus who only want your money !
Where theres money...God vanishes
@@narendranarotam3816 TM is like option stock market. Invest money and in return serious about your spiritual growth within specified time.
I second that - I spent a huge amount of money on utter crap before I discovered the real teaching.
@@sallyunderwood66 yhe real teaching is beyond money gold and diamonds...when any one asks for money for spiritual upliftment walk in opposite direction and dont turn back..protect ur material wealth as much as u protect ur spiritual wealth
That is most auspicious. I am glad to hear that.
Well, that was not necessarily wasted money. Why? Well, I don't think I am rationalizing it when I say that we can spend a lot of many on many distractions over the course of a lifetime, (and I am sure you can think of many) and, if we discover what we truly are by trial and error on in the contrast, that makes it well worth it.
They took your money, but you got the gold.
would you class watching this video as a form of distraction or education
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I hate this. Ok and if I can’t sit straight or lie down without pain, also cannot breathe properly.. then what? This just remains a dream for me :(
It is a dream. But you aware of the dream. What is it that knows the dream? That's where this is leading us... No need to sit straight, lie down, or breathe properly...that's just the finite mind telling you a lie that you must conform to an idea of what meditation is. As Rupert says, "Meditation is what we are, not what we do."
eamonnspirit I know This. But to recognize all this you atleast have to be comfortable. I cannot have a position without pain. Thanks anyway 🙏🏼
@@paarkour83 when suffering is my block to my meditation/peace, I employ gratefulness. Sometimes the only thing I can think of to be grateful for is my desire, drive and courage to keep desiring grace & peace. Once I move from complaining to gratefulness, loving peace floods in. I try to ride that wave through my meditation technique into the stillness. Be still and know 🙏
I feel for you. I have experienced that, too. A healing meditation/self-hypnosis youtube video by David McGraw has been very helpful for me. Maybe it will help you, too.
How Godless & Selfish!
It has been stated "God is Love " It has also been stated that "God is Consciousness " Does that mean that Love is Consciousness and Consciousness is Love ??
Juno Rodigan yes!
Exactly
I can’t seem to separate myself from objective experience. And every time I think I’m back to my true self I start questioning wether I’m just thinking it. Anyone know how to get passed this ?
It seems that you are still looking for it. As if your thinking is in search for it, and whatever it finds, of course questions and rightly find out that it could not be that. You are still looking for it as an objektive experience.
The thinking and the questioning itself is an objective experience which can be watched.
Stop looking for it. It’s obvious that „you are“. And this what „you are“ is experiencing all your thinking and searching. Just remain in the obvious knowing of what you are without trying to find it as objective experience. You cannot find it as an object. Remain in the obvious knowing of that you are, not in looking for it.
It sounds to complacted
I have found meditation gurus to be quite dangerous. Nothing against them, everything in life is dangerous. There are no easy solutions. That said, if there is shit you need to straighten out in your life, you have to dig deep and find a way to do it. And meditation gurus can convince us that they're just meaningless "thoughts" that aren't connected with reality. No! Your kid needs to eat! That's not a thought, that's a responsibility. I know it probably rare gets to be that ridiculous, but it can. I heard one lady get up and ask Mooji whether she should attend to the responsibility she has to her family or just continue to meditate and he was basically like "meh, whatever you want." These teachings can convince us that other people don't exist. That we're all existing in one big ball of energy and there is no differentiation between you and me. I'm not saying that's what this guy is saying, but my god what worthless slop this is. Literally anyone can do it. Try it out yourself. Sit there with your eyes closed, just breathing and see if you can't talk about meaningless oneness nonsense like him.
Timothy Stratton Nonsense for you, lifechanging experience for others. We each have choices. To open, to feel what is behind the words. Or to stay closed in our misery because life difficulties happened..
You don't always have to think about your actions(performing responsibilities) while performing them in order for them to have validation. Im no awakened man but you seem to have completely miss the point and twisted the situation according to your own beliefs and doubts and are out here labelling everything as nonsense. Chill, your actions/responsibilities and seeking CAN go hand-in-hand. You can attend to your son's need and still be able to inquire about the source of the thought that "My son is hungry".
@@manojkr9198 right... but the latter doesn't really mean anything.
@@neodein Yes of course there is meaning behind everyone's words, even spiritual gurus'. Take Spira's utterance at 22:52 where in the moments before -- in his feigned silence -- his breath is shortened, his eyes dart and his fingers writhe in worry. He says "Our own being is not unfamiliar to us. It is simply buried underneath or behind layers of experience". He is afraid to talk about himself so he says that "WE bury our true nature". Do we? Or is that just him? Maybe he does that with his addiction to pottery? Or maybe with his addiction to food or sex? I'm not sure what his personal struggles are, but he seems anxious and dissatisfied and is projecting his personal problems onto the world.
So yes, I must apologize and I do agree with you. There is in fact great meaning to be found behind each person's words, even in the words of those who pretend to be able to tell us the will of the universe. But there is ALWAYS more meaning in the sound of the wind (the universe itself)
@@tpstrat14 if it doesn't align with your beliefs and experiences, then you declare it to be meaningless. My last statement wasn't from some book or guru but from my OWN personal experience with my mind and OCD. And before you go on assuming things according to your own beliefs and declaring them as a matter of fact, lemme tell you that my experience with that last statement is the only reason im still sane and functional.
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Rupert I would like to meet,
My name is N-AM-T which if you allow me aid in getting to your residence then you would be of further more aid to God than you already are,
This can happen and I know you would love to have me in studio with guests for in silence n company I aid in my head to all but give further or supreme understanding to your personal interpretation of what comes from within in your own presence,
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How dare you. So you have convinced yourself to be the Almighty huh?
Unspeakable blasphemy. Unspeakable blasphemy.
What? How dare you? I will proclaim myself GOD. Unashamed.
Sorrow and......just silence. Why lose your soul over this?
He is calling. He is home. He is forgiving. He is waiting :)
ALL the longing you have is found in Him. Alone.
You need no teacher. No wisdom. No prayer...Just a look.
How can a father call back a wayward child? Just a look.
Look, I get it. The present moment is all there is. This awareness here and now is the only thing that is.
Then man has desire. Desire is an illusion. Yet we are gods or even God are we not? Then why dose prayer not affect the world, why does meditation not affect reality? If I am God and I create a world with my thoughts, then why when I choose certain thoughts in this moment over the span of years, does reality not reflect that thought?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Is bullshit. Is complete and absolute utter bullshit.
The truth is you are afraid ........ fear of death.
At rock bottom you will rise and understand
@@gypsydanger3765 Fear. Philosophical mumbo jumbo. "fear"
Thank you, Yoda.
Thank you
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Thank you