I am experiencing a gradual sense of deep peace the more I understand that I am awareness and there is nothing else and all of the universe is awareness expressing itself . Makes things almost too simple . Great time to be awakening to this .
I feel like a mystery is being solved. I am in awareness! I thought it was something different. Now I see how I can accept my thoughts, feelings and experiences without the wishing it was different. Thank you Rupert for making these UA-cams available!! 💖💖💖
You are not « in » awareness , you « are » awareness, your thought, feelings and expériences are made of you awareness, you don’t have to accept or not, there’s no separate self to accept or not, all there is is you assuming The form of feelings, thought ... This is True love 😉❤️ hope it helps 😊
@@terristott7773 Thank you too Terri🙏 Combined to Rupert wonderful teaching, maybe you know the teaching « exercices » of Douglas Harding to see directly, immediately what Rupert is saying, you are the infinite space where everything takes place, With love ❤️
The more I listen to Rupert, the more I realise that this understanding allows me to reach a level of happiness that I had never previously imagined, and (almost) completely independent of what is happening in the material world
When he mentions he found this experience not by himself but a particular friend, he is most likely referring to his mirror soul which mirrors back to you the beliefs you hold, perceptions you have of the world and others 🤗
This is such a great description of a seemingly 'perfect' duality. Awareness does not have access to itself or to anything. Why would it? The idea that it might have access to or awareness of itself is the final delusion of the apparent individual or seeker. The idea that there could ever be a 'modulation' of, or a modulation in reality is as absurd as the idea that reality assumes any form? All there is is timeless, boundless unknowing without form and no one (other than an apparent individual) can say they know or have ever glimpsed this or have ever experienced the -knowing of any experience'. Infinite consciousness has never assumed any form.... the idea that it could has filled many a retreat and course and intensive and has spurned all the gurus and teachers that have plagued the individual/seeker with 'clever' ideas and futile hope. There was never a way in as there will never be a way out!
Rupert, you've answered so many questions of mine in before (in videos and books). And here you address the exact question that I cannot get past again and again. Yes, indeed, there is no doubt that I am aware. But the fact that we share it is something I have to take on trust (and I do). Whenever you ask "Is there a limit to your awareness" I can only answer I have no idea. You do say that our perceptions never meet. And this seems like a real limit. It may be a limit that, in your analogy (infinite screen with 7 billion movies), awareness has imposed on itself. But since I can only know perception (which is made of awareness or is awareness) how can I possibly know that the awareness doesn't share perception's limits? Also: You say that the dog, Hitler, Ramana Maharshi, would all say "I am." But to my limited mind their presence and response are only perceptions. So is a rock. Their minds, their answer, and the rock are all, to me, known only as perceptions. Would you say that the rock, if it could speak would also say "I am"? Maybe, I don't know. But it does seem that sense perception is essential to awareness knowing itself, even if the sensing apparatus is not material as we once thought.
u just haven't earnestly investigated your experience enough. once you prove it for yourself, that doubt is gone. if you inwardly investigate behind the eyes which is usually where deep feelings of false self reside, you will notice there's something aware of this. when you search closer for the one who's aware, you'll notice you simulate an imaginary screen behind the head but it's not real. try to not be conscious and you'll notice that no matter what, something has to always be aware of it for it to even exist or register. once you see beyond even the one who's looking, the truth becomes laughably obvious. just keep checking. don't settle for a solely intellectual understanding.
Your first dilemma. Is awareness limited? Well how can you define awareness? That which is aware. The only limit of any kind would just have to be another "object" in awareness. Perception=Awareness is exactly right. So if you believe in objects which when broke down are more like smoke and mirrors then actual definitive proof this would be hard to decipher. When you hear these words is the knowing separate from the hearing? Or is it more true to say that the knowing and hearing are one in the same? How about sensation? Is there a separation between knowing and the sensation? Or are they together? Knowing is the garden in which all of these "seemingly" appearances occur. If there are no objects then is there knowing left? Knowing is already non-objective so no answer is needed. If you say no then there would have to be a knowing of that experience of unknowing which is impossible. There ya go.
These ideas need to be based on physics representing physical reality. We share the nature of the same reality from the center of our own reference frame. We are all in ‘the moment of now’ with our own individual personal view of the Universe. Rupert’s ideas of oneness and unity could be even more beautiful explained as a universal process that can be explained by physics.
+An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory Awareness cannot be experienced in the mind, i.e. reduced to a scientific experiment. + these are not Rupert's ideas; this is advaita vedanta- the ancient Hindu teachings of non-duality, based on subjective experience and not on objective theories. Rupert adapts his responses to the capacity of understanding of each seeker of the truth posing questions. But in absolute terms, reality has no individual personal views, no we, no universe, no time/space. All there is, is just eternal Being.
daisilui I do not want to change Rupert’s ideas or under mind anyone’s faith, I am just saying that these ideas can be explained has part of a universal process. The very beautiful ancient Hindu ideas of non-duality that are based on subjective experience can also be based on physics or an objective theory. The ‘eternal Being’ of each individual can be explained has part of a universal process of energy exchange or continuous creation. The easiest way to explain this is to dumb down consciousness to the level of electrical activity in the brain that is aware of its own electrical potential within its own reference frame. It is this process of each one of us having our own ref-frame that gives the brain the concept of mind with each one of us having our own unique view of life from the centre of our own ref-frame. The continuous flow of idea and emotions that forms consciousness is always in the ‘moment of now’ or ‘eternal Being’ within the centre of its own created reality this is why each individual can look back in time in all direction at the beauty of the stars. Thanks for your feedback!
+An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory "...dumb down consciousness to the level of electrical activity in the brain that is aware of its own electrical potential... " i don't think is possible to 'dumb down' consciousness- this is what we are= consciousness/awareness. However, in appearance what we are is already veiled by the mind that superimposes its own dual reality of subject and object over the truth. My point is that the mind can always dissect, analyse and produce theories about anything but awareness cannot be known other than through itself. Anyway, whatever works for you... good luck with your theory.
The goal is to become Awake in Deep Sleep. 99.999% of humanity experience deep sleep but are not aware ( awake in) . Less than 1% have Infinite Power Knowledge and Bliss continuous without a break ( Full Awakeness ) and are known as " Spiritually Perfect, Perfect Masters, Avatar, God Realized. Ancient One, Messiah, etc. ( all experience the same Awake state but their function is different). And you cannot attain God Realization by your own efforts. It's a Gift of Love from God. Meher Baba sums it up best with these profound insights: . Love is a gift from God to man. Obedience is a gift from Master to man. Surrender is a gift from man to Master. One who loves desires the will of the Beloved. One who obeys does the will of the Beloved. One who surrenders knows nothing but the will of the Beloved. Love seeks union with the Beloved. Obedience seeks the pleasure of the Beloved. Surrender seeks nothing. One who loves is the lover of the Beloved. One who obeys is the beloved of the Beloved. One who surrenders has no existence other than the Beloved. Greater than love is obedience. Greater than obedience is surrender. All three arise out of, and remain contained in, the Ocean of divine Love. (THE EVERYTHING AND THE NOTHING, p. 5 ). WOW!!!!!!
So the mind/brain is just a receiver of consciousness and thus consciousness is not physically "in" the brain. With that being said...where does consciousness reside or rather where can it be found. I understand the concept of the larger consciousness system. would it be Outside this reality frame? can it ever been seen or is it just felt. would you agree that these bodies are just avatars and reality is like a big hologram or computer program.Everything in this physical reality feels so real that it is hard to conceptualize..
+melissa carbone you try to understand it with your mind, but you really can´t. You need to directly ecperience it, than you know excatly what all these teachers mean with words like Emptiness, Self, Conciousness.
It's impossible to deny that there is awareness/knowing/consciousness. Because as soon as this is being read it already proves itself. So does that knowing go away? It's impossible to say yes because then there would have to be a knowing of that knowing disappearing. So knowing cannot disappear. The so called objects that is known can and do disappear every day.
+Lori Shaw Because awareness is not a thought. You are aware of thoughts, as well as all other aspects of experience. "Am I aware?" is indeed a thought, but where it leads is not. When you ask "Am I aware?", you automatically turn your attention to the experience of being aware, which is a kind of a defocusing of attention - turning the attention away from any particular object.
Awareness exists during deep sleep without the body. If your body decides to throw a dream at you while in this deep sleep, awareness is also still there to witness/interpret this dream and report on it when the body wakes up again.
The mind is a modulation of awareness. The mind is to awareness what the movie is to the screen. The essential nature of the screen is colourless but it has the capacity to assume the form of all images. So it's consciousness that has the capacity to assume the form of the finite mind and appear as thoughts, sensations and perceptions; in other words to appear to itself as the body, the mind and the world. As consciousness freely takes the form of the finite mind it seems to veil itself from itself but in fact it is hidden in all experience, it is totally out in the open, the only substance there is to the finite mind --which is thoughts and perceptions, is infinite consciousness modulating itself in the numerous forms of each of our finite minds.All that we experience is the knowing of experience. All that is known is knowing, which is consciousness. Consciousness is modulating itself, assuming the form of the finite mind and appearing as a world. The world doesn't exist independently, it never comes into existence (ex-istence = to stand out from), it never stands out of consciousness and becomes an object in its own right, it's all just consciousness knowing itself either as itself or in the form of the body-mind-world. It's either the screen when the movie is on, or the screen when the movie is off but it's always just the screen. The screen itself never undergoes any change but it has the capacity to modulate itself in the form of all changes, to assume infinite names and forms. That is consciousness, that is you, you are that infinite one that is freely assuming limitations of the body-mind-world. Consciousness is freely assuming the form of an innumerable number of finite minds, one of which is called your name. You are one of the temporary localizations of consciousness through which consciousness brings into existence part of its infinite potential. Each of us is a precipitation, all these finite minds are precipitated in or out of the same field but they're never really out of the same field because the finite mind never really leaves consciousness, there's nowhere else to go in experience, there is no outside consciousness, it is consciousness itself that modulates itself in the form of all these finite minds. As the finite mind they're different because each finite mind has a different name, it's a different form; so if we compare the minds, the bodies and the worlds there are differences there but the stuff they're made of is the same stuff. Take a screen with no limits and there are 2 movies playing on it, there is no limit between the 2, the line between them is in the appearance, the name and the form but the stuff they're made of is the same, it's not divided into 2 different minds, 2 different images. The infinite screen of awareness is assuming the form of 7 billion images; it's like a night watchman's screen, he's got cameras all around the place and is looking at all appearing on the same screen. Consciousness is like an infinite screen where 7 billion different movies are playing on. Sometimes there are some of those 7 billions that appear blank on the screen; that's when they're deeply asleep, there's no image playing there, but the screen is not divided amongst the appearances; it's one infinite presence freely assuming the names and forms and therefore freely assuming their limitations in order to manifest its infinite potential and appearing to itself as a multiplicity and diversity of experience. The screen is not watched, it is self-aware, the screen is watching all the movies that are playing on it. You are aware means awareness is aware. To know itself, awareness doesn't need to rise in the form of the mind, it only needs the mind to know about the experiences. That's why each one of us answers 'yes' so readily to the question Are you aware. Are you aware (or who am I?) is the only question about which there can be absolutely no doubt because it's the only question that takes us to the non-objective experience, and there can be no differences between something that is non-objective, there can only be one non-objective reality. At the level of the mind, the potential for disagreement is endless, we can never be sure we're talking about the same thing at the level of the mind but we can be absolutely certain when we speak at the level of awareness alone, when we speak about that which shines in each of us as the knowledge "I am", that experience is identical whether we're a dog or a human being. It's the only experience that we're all truly sharing. The reason why we think we're sharing the world is because it's our shared consciousness that is assuming the form of billions of different finite minds, with different perceptions. We think we're seeing the perception of the same world, no, it's because the perception comes from the same consciousness that we feel we share the same world. Our perceptions don't meet, they don't know each other, they don't meet each other; why do we feel that we're sharing the world when 2 perceptions can never meet? It's because each of our perceptions is informed by the same consciousness. It is consciousness that we share, not the world. I am completely uprooting the materialistic paradigm on which our world culture is founded.
We do not own the Universe. We do not own spirit, energy, matter, atoms or ether. We do not own the way things happen and interact. We do not own this planet or what grows and dies on it. We do not own other animals. We do not own other human beings. We do not even own this body and the feelings that arise in it. We do not own our identity. But we may think we own all of this. In any case, we just own the thoughts we have about our own identity, about this body and the feelings that arise from it, about other human beings, about other animals, about the planet and what grows and dies on it. In any case, we just own the thoughts we have about the way things happen and interact, about spirit, energy, matter, atoms and ether, about the Universe. ______ Veganism is the conscious practice of *_«not owning animals»_* 🍀
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25:35 - And the pig, and the chicken, and the cow, and the dolphin, and the rat... Why does awareness stop in dogs? The animals we use as objects, commodities and resources for food, clothing and entertainment are aware. Going vegan means to stop using animals as things 🍀
7:37 - _«Awareness doesn't transition through states, states transition through awareness»_
Beautiful 🍀🙏🏻
Rupert's mind is a brilliant modulation of Awareness - the same Awareness we all are :)
WHAT A GIFT!
It is the perfect time to completely uproot the materialist paradigm on which the world culture is based. A harbinger of true peace!
I am experiencing a gradual sense of deep peace the more I understand that I am awareness and there is nothing else and all of the universe is awareness expressing itself . Makes things almost too simple . Great time to be awakening to this .
I feel like a mystery is being solved. I am in awareness! I thought it was something different. Now I see how I can accept my thoughts, feelings and experiences without the wishing it was different.
Thank you Rupert for making these UA-cams available!! 💖💖💖
You are not « in » awareness , you « are » awareness, your thought, feelings and expériences are made of you awareness, you don’t have to accept or not, there’s no separate self to accept or not, all there is is you assuming The form of feelings, thought ... This is True love 😉❤️ hope it helps 😊
@@tinamasson6472 🙏 thank you! And yes immersing myself in these teachings daily I’m seeing I am awareness ❤️❤️
@@terristott7773 Thank you too Terri🙏 Combined to Rupert wonderful teaching, maybe you know the teaching « exercices » of Douglas Harding to see directly, immediately what Rupert is saying, you are the infinite space where everything takes place,
With love ❤️
@@tinamasson6472 I do not know Douglas Harding but will look him up. Thanks 🙏
@@terristott7773 With great pleasure❤️❤️
Omg…that has really cleared this on another level. All one having different experiences! ♥️. Rupert you are a wonderful guide.
Beautiful explanation. Thank you Rupert
WoW...WoW...WoW...Excellent, excellent, excellent...Thanks for posting...I Am !!!
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The more I listen to Rupert, the more I realise that this understanding allows me to reach a level of happiness that I had never previously imagined, and (almost) completely independent of what is happening in the material world
There is not a material world, it's only a modulation of conscience. Energy and the knowing of it, all one.
very well put. We don't share the world/perceptions we share the consciousness that perceives it.
Rupert always describes everything so clearly, it's impossible not to get it.
I had a glimp of I am just now, in this moment, it was beautifull, i just can say, thanks!!!❤️
Your always in the now, only your not paying attention to it.
@@WeAreHereForOneAnother oh thuis For asking. Bult i lost thuis feeling Alain and gaaien 😔
I did see this video again and i again understand it Is it training to hold it? Because its great.
The ending was perfect!
Sin palabras, excelente!!!!
Muchísimas gracias
Excellent
I feel like knowing what we are is the single most important aspect of our lives.
It is what we are here for.
It truly truly is! And to know what the nature of that is!
A real champion of freedom
When he mentions he found this experience not by himself but a particular friend, he is most likely referring to his mirror soul which mirrors back to you the beliefs you hold, perceptions you have of the world and others 🤗
Thank you
great message great teaching
Well said Rupert, a real tour de force!
What a marvelous clip! At last I think I’ve got it!
upside down inside out. from the world view. The yin and yang of knowing. Truth, when you hear it you know it, knowing knowing itself
This is such a great description of a seemingly 'perfect' duality. Awareness does not have access to itself or to anything. Why would it? The idea that it might have access to or awareness of itself is the final delusion of the apparent individual or seeker. The idea that there could ever be a 'modulation' of, or a modulation in reality is as absurd as the idea that reality assumes any form? All there is is timeless, boundless unknowing without form and no one (other than an apparent individual) can say they know or have ever glimpsed this or have ever experienced the -knowing of any experience'. Infinite consciousness has never assumed any form.... the idea that it could has filled many a retreat and course and intensive and has spurned all the gurus and teachers that have plagued the individual/seeker with 'clever' ideas and futile hope. There was never a way in as there will never be a way out!
"when my children wake me up in the night my level of awareness is not great" 🤣 I love the honesty and humour from that questioner
Rupert, you've answered so many questions of mine in before (in videos and books). And here you address the exact question that I cannot get past again and again. Yes, indeed, there is no doubt that I am aware. But the fact that we share it is something I have to take on trust (and I do). Whenever you ask "Is there a limit to your awareness" I can only answer I have no idea. You do say that our perceptions never meet. And this seems like a real limit. It may be a limit that, in your analogy (infinite screen with 7 billion movies), awareness has imposed on itself. But since I can only know perception (which is made of awareness or is awareness) how can I possibly know that the awareness doesn't share perception's limits?
Also: You say that the dog, Hitler, Ramana Maharshi, would all say "I am." But to my limited mind their presence and response are only perceptions. So is a rock. Their minds, their answer, and the rock are all, to me, known only as perceptions. Would you say that the rock, if it could speak would also say "I am"? Maybe, I don't know. But it does seem that sense perception is essential to awareness knowing itself, even if the sensing apparatus is not material as we once thought.
+Ukeridge There are no "others"...or things.
u just haven't earnestly investigated your experience enough. once you prove it for yourself, that doubt is gone. if you inwardly investigate behind the eyes which is usually where deep feelings of false self reside, you will notice there's something aware of this. when you search closer for the one who's aware, you'll notice you simulate an imaginary screen behind the head but it's not real. try to not be conscious and you'll notice that no matter what, something has to always be aware of it for it to even exist or register. once you see beyond even the one who's looking, the truth becomes laughably obvious. just keep checking. don't settle for a solely intellectual understanding.
Your first dilemma. Is awareness limited? Well how can you define awareness? That which is aware. The only limit of any kind would just have to be another "object" in awareness. Perception=Awareness is exactly right. So if you believe in objects which when broke down are more like smoke and mirrors then actual definitive proof this would be hard to decipher. When you hear these words is the knowing separate from the hearing? Or is it more true to say that the knowing and hearing are one in the same? How about sensation? Is there a separation between knowing and the sensation? Or are they together? Knowing is the garden in which all of these "seemingly" appearances occur. If there are no objects then is there knowing left? Knowing is already non-objective so no answer is needed. If you say no then there would have to be a knowing of that experience of unknowing which is impossible. There ya go.
Amazing breakdown! This makes perfect sense .thank you, this is how I believe too.:-)
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Love you! :)
These ideas need to be based on physics representing physical reality. We share the nature of the same reality from the center of our own reference frame. We are all in ‘the moment of now’ with our own individual personal view of the Universe. Rupert’s ideas of oneness and unity could be even more beautiful explained as a universal process that can be explained by physics.
+An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory
Awareness cannot be experienced in the mind, i.e. reduced to a scientific experiment.
+ these are not Rupert's ideas; this is advaita vedanta- the ancient Hindu teachings of non-duality, based on subjective experience and not on objective theories. Rupert adapts his responses to the capacity of understanding of each seeker of the truth posing questions. But in absolute terms, reality has no individual personal views, no we, no universe, no time/space. All there is, is just eternal Being.
daisilui I do not want to change Rupert’s ideas or under mind anyone’s faith, I am just saying that these ideas can be explained has part of a universal process. The very beautiful ancient Hindu ideas of non-duality that are based on subjective experience can also be based on physics or an objective theory. The ‘eternal Being’ of each individual can be explained has part of a universal process of energy exchange or continuous creation. The easiest way to explain this is to dumb down consciousness to the level of electrical activity in the brain that is aware of its own electrical potential within its own reference frame. It is this process of each one of us having our own ref-frame that gives the brain the concept of mind with each one of us having our own unique view of life from the centre of our own ref-frame. The continuous flow of idea and emotions that forms consciousness is always in the ‘moment of now’ or ‘eternal Being’ within the centre of its own created reality this is why each individual can look back in time in all direction at the beauty of the stars. Thanks for your feedback!
+An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory spot on.
+An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory "...dumb down consciousness to the level of electrical activity in the brain that is aware of its own electrical potential... " i don't think is possible to 'dumb down' consciousness- this is what we are= consciousness/awareness. However, in appearance what we are is already veiled by the mind that superimposes its own dual reality of subject and object over the truth. My point is that the mind can always dissect, analyse and produce theories about anything but awareness cannot be known other than through itself. Anyway, whatever works for you... good luck with your theory.
daisilui Thanks!!!
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The goal is to become Awake in Deep Sleep. 99.999% of humanity experience deep sleep but are not aware ( awake in) . Less than 1% have Infinite Power Knowledge and Bliss continuous without a break ( Full Awakeness ) and are known as " Spiritually Perfect, Perfect Masters, Avatar, God Realized. Ancient One, Messiah, etc. ( all experience the same Awake state but their function is different). And you cannot attain God Realization by your own efforts. It's a Gift of Love from God. Meher Baba sums it up best with these profound insights:
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Love is a gift from God to man.
Obedience is a gift from Master to man.
Surrender is a gift from man to Master.
One who loves desires the will of the Beloved.
One who obeys does the will of the Beloved.
One who surrenders knows nothing but the will of the Beloved.
Love seeks union with the Beloved.
Obedience seeks the pleasure of the Beloved.
Surrender seeks nothing.
One who loves is the lover of the Beloved.
One who obeys is the beloved of the Beloved.
One who surrenders has no existence other than the Beloved.
Greater than love is obedience.
Greater than obedience is surrender.
All three arise out of, and remain contained in, the Ocean of divine Love.
(THE EVERYTHING AND THE NOTHING, p. 5 ).
WOW!!!!!!
I still find it difficult, to leap from the intellectual knowledge that I am Awareness, to the experiential one. How does the latter come about?
A year later, I have grasped what, "I AM THAT I AM" really means! Thanks Rupert..
So the mind/brain is just a receiver of consciousness and thus consciousness is not physically "in" the brain. With that being said...where does consciousness reside or rather where can it be found. I understand the concept of the larger consciousness system. would it be Outside this reality frame? can it ever been seen or is it just felt. would you agree that these bodies are just avatars and reality is like a big hologram or computer program.Everything in this physical reality feels so real that it is hard to conceptualize..
+melissa carbone you try to understand it with your mind, but you really can´t. You need to directly ecperience it, than you know excatly what all these teachers mean with words like Emptiness, Self, Conciousness.
That I am
erm .. i am racing alongside you .. in a parallel universe
Why is being aware of being aware not just another thought? I don't mean to be argumentative, I really do want to understand this.
It's impossible to deny that there is awareness/knowing/consciousness. Because as soon as this is being read it already proves itself. So does that knowing go away? It's impossible to say yes because then there would have to be a knowing of that knowing disappearing. So knowing cannot disappear. The so called objects that is known can and do disappear every day.
+Lori Shaw Because awareness is not a thought. You are aware of thoughts, as well as all other aspects of experience.
"Am I aware?" is indeed a thought, but where it leads is not. When you ask "Am I aware?", you automatically turn your attention to the experience of being aware, which is a kind of a defocusing of attention - turning the attention away from any particular object.
Awareness exists during deep sleep without the body. If your body decides to throw a dream at you while in this deep sleep, awareness is also still there to witness/interpret this dream and report on it when the body wakes up again.
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..and what is it in all of us that is aware of this?
The mind is a modulation of awareness. The mind is to awareness what the movie is to the screen. The essential nature of the screen is colourless but it has the capacity to assume the form of all images. So it's consciousness that has the capacity to assume the form of the finite mind and appear as thoughts, sensations and perceptions; in other words to appear to itself as the body, the mind and the world. As consciousness freely takes the form of the finite mind it seems to veil itself from itself but in fact it is hidden in all experience, it is totally out in the open, the only substance there is to the finite mind --which is thoughts and perceptions, is infinite consciousness modulating itself in the numerous forms of each of our finite minds.All that we experience is the knowing of experience. All that is known is knowing, which is consciousness. Consciousness is modulating itself, assuming the form of the finite mind and appearing as a world. The world doesn't exist independently, it never comes into existence (ex-istence = to stand out from), it never stands out of consciousness and becomes an object in its own right, it's all just consciousness knowing itself either as itself or in the form of the body-mind-world. It's either the screen when the movie is on, or the screen when the movie is off but it's always just the screen. The screen itself never undergoes any change but it has the capacity to modulate itself in the form of all changes, to assume infinite names and forms. That is consciousness, that is you, you are that infinite one that is freely assuming limitations of the body-mind-world. Consciousness is freely assuming the form of an innumerable number of finite minds, one of which is called your name. You are one of the temporary localizations of consciousness through which consciousness brings into existence part of its infinite potential. Each of us is a precipitation, all these finite minds are precipitated in or out of the same field but they're never really out of the same field because the finite mind never really leaves consciousness, there's nowhere else to go in experience, there is no outside consciousness, it is consciousness itself that modulates itself in the form of all these finite minds. As the finite mind they're different because each finite mind has a different name, it's a different form; so if we compare the minds, the bodies and the worlds there are differences there but the stuff they're made of is the same stuff. Take a screen with no limits and there are 2 movies playing on it, there is no limit between the 2, the line between them is in the appearance, the name and the form but the stuff they're made of is the same, it's not divided into 2 different minds, 2 different images. The infinite screen of awareness is assuming the form of 7 billion images; it's like a night watchman's screen, he's got cameras all around the place and is looking at all appearing on the same screen. Consciousness is like an infinite screen where 7 billion different movies are playing on. Sometimes there are some of those 7 billions that appear blank on the screen; that's when they're deeply asleep, there's no image playing there, but the screen is not divided amongst the appearances; it's one infinite presence freely assuming the names and forms and therefore freely assuming their limitations in order to manifest its infinite potential and appearing to itself as a multiplicity and diversity of experience. The screen is not watched, it is self-aware, the screen is watching all the movies that are playing on it. You are aware means awareness is aware. To know itself, awareness doesn't need to rise in the form of the mind, it only needs the mind to know about the experiences. That's why each one of us answers 'yes' so readily to the question Are you aware. Are you aware (or who am I?) is the only question about which there can be absolutely no doubt because it's the only question that takes us to the non-objective experience, and there can be no differences between something that is non-objective, there can only be one non-objective reality. At the level of the mind, the potential for disagreement is endless, we can never be sure we're talking about the same thing at the level of the mind but we can be absolutely certain when we speak at the level of awareness alone, when we speak about that which shines in each of us as the knowledge "I am", that experience is identical whether we're a dog or a human being. It's the only experience that we're all truly sharing. The reason why we think we're sharing the world is because it's our shared consciousness that is assuming the form of billions of different finite minds, with different perceptions. We think we're seeing the perception of the same world, no, it's because the perception comes from the same consciousness that we feel we share the same world. Our perceptions don't meet, they don't know each other, they don't meet each other; why do we feel that we're sharing the world when 2 perceptions can never meet? It's because each of our perceptions is informed by the same consciousness. It is consciousness that we share, not the world. I am completely uprooting the materialistic paradigm on which our world culture is founded.
I really like this questioner. Can anybody put me in touch?
Web site at the end of the video.
Okay. I hadn't thought that maybe somebody at the website could help me locate the questioner, but that makes sense, thanks!
We do not own the Universe. We do not own spirit, energy, matter, atoms or ether. We do not own the way things happen and interact. We do not own this planet or what grows and dies on it. We do not own other animals. We do not own other human beings. We do not even own this body and the feelings that arise in it. We do not own our identity. But we may think we own all of this.
In any case, we just own the thoughts we have about our own identity, about this body and the feelings that arise from it, about other human beings, about other animals, about the planet and what grows and dies on it. In any case, we just own the thoughts we have about the way things happen and interact, about spirit, energy, matter, atoms and ether, about the Universe.
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Veganism is the conscious practice of *_«not owning animals»_* 🍀
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25:35 - And the pig, and the chicken, and the cow, and the dolphin, and the rat... Why does awareness stop in dogs? The animals we use as objects, commodities and resources for food, clothing and entertainment are aware. Going vegan means to stop using animals as things 🍀