"I am nothing... I am everything" is a tennis ball being constantly hit back and forth, with no logical foundational home. Planetary humans are not "everything". Humans are something. They are personalities on the awakening journey to find, know, and be with the universal source of Life.
@@steveflorida8699 Yes, but of course he wasn't a human. He was 'nothing' when relating to his source, and everything when relating to the world/universe.
💖 Here we go finally; BACK TO THE SOURCE! Let's face it; $pirituality is a TRAP in a way; it's always side tracking, bypassing. Here is one of the possible reasons; It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
There is a story told by Stephen Wolinsky ( a disciple of SNM ). He says they we gathered in Maharaj’s room listened to his lectures when a well known yoga instructor enters the room and begins dialoguing with Maharaj. Maharaj asked the man “Who are you?” The man begins telling Maharaj with certainty and fervor about himself “I’m a yoga instructor, meditation teacher” etc. Patiently waiting for the man to finish telling Maharaj everything he claims to be, Maharaj looks at him and says “that’s not it”. Stephen was standing right behind the man and says it was like the man was made out of glass and Maharaj had thrown a stone right through the man and completed shattered his perceptions. This story is a great analogy to summarize what had happened to me when I read “I am That” for the first time. When we understand the contents of our mind and the roots of these contents, we understand we are constantly projecting our own myopic views into the world. Eventually we begin to look at the mind so intensely that it becomes still and almost effortlessly our perception dissociates from our minds and our bodies and our true nature reveals itself “spontaneously”. It’s truly something to marvel at. The one thing standing in the way of seeing our true nature is the mind and it’s constant mechanisms of comparison, judegement, divison, projections, etc. Take care of your mind and body, carefully watch what you feed your mind/body, just know at the deepest “level” of your being. Your true nature stands alone and permeates peace and love through all aspects of life.
Thank you my dear Rupert whom I consider my friend although we haven’t met I feel I’ve always known you . A million thanks you being stillness to my heart .
Hello Rupert. Thank you. Nisargadatta Maharaj videos on UA-cam is how I learnt about meditation and consciouness a few years ago. His words were a “total shock” to me because they were truth. He is really a revelation for me. Thx.
Absolutely- a tremendous shock. I remember the first time I read "I Am That" and I was shaken. Nothing like this had ever happened before. Truly shaken, and there was a singular clarity.
I read I Am That years ago, but it never really clicked until I started listening to Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup. Now it makes so much more sense.
Initially for me it was Swami Sarvapriyananda and then Atamananda Udasin, through Advaita Vedanta (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramesh Balsekar) Other great teachers followed; Rupert included.
Thank you for this Rupert. I have been seeking for quite a while and it finally has occurred that this "me" entity, it has been seeking to improve, get somewhere, understand, figure out things and rather recently noticed that the "me", after all this time seeking, has not once even gotten close to puzzling out non-duality. After realizing this, mind was on the precipice of being dropped, who is going to drop it and how, then there was some fear but after hearing you speak on Stillness, for some reason that sort of finalized that the "me/mind" had to be side-stepped and ignored/dis-identified with in order to be at peace. It has nothing to do with effort! That is what the mind is doing is making an effort to get somewhere, achieve something, enlightenment BUT again it has nothing to do with that, so side-step it. What a relief. What a revelation. 🙂 Nisargadatta said, "“It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.” Side-step the mind because it is not any help in realizing the true nature. Mind is basically traffic that needs to be side-stepped and there is peace in that.
Based on my decades of trying to reconcile Vedanta and modern physics (esp quantum mechanics) Let me respectfully offer an alternative view to Sri Nisargadatta namely "I AM NOT THAT". While I completely agree that everything in the visible universe is indeed an "illusion" (Maya, a 3-D holographic movie- etc) every "particle" and every "event" is indeed a "dream character" and sequence" that appear and disappear in the Dreamer's (GOD?) consciousness. We are there to serve EXACTLY the same purpose that actors in a movie or a play do, namely to "entertain" the audience, and in our case, an audience of ONE. I therefore believe it is erroneous to confuse the dream character with the Dreamer who is merely "observing & enjoying" our wild and crazy behaviors. Our best (and ONLY) course of action is to ACCEPT this stark reality and continue with our "virtual" existence according to the casting of our role assigned by lottery. Thus, I AM THAT can be rephrased as "I AM (for the entertainment) of THAT. 🙏
The phrase "I am that" is used by maharaj as a piinter not to label it as the final truth. He used it because of the limitation of words in explaining the Brahman. "I AM" is the closest to the truth. But the final truth is beyond the "I am". Its the awareness between and beyond the knower and known. If you are referring knower as the " I am", you have misunderstood. The knower rises when a body is born and sets when it dies leaving an imprint of memories in the universal conousiness.
Thanks Rupert! Summer 2009 .I searched and found this book in the library of a J. Krishnamurti place in Varanasi. It was like a spiritual big bang for me. Since then..what a journey!ॐ ❤
"I am that" by maharaj is the holiest spiritual guidance book ; and understanding would just flow if is explained by Rupert .how I wish Rupert could read out and explain the entire book
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
@@antalperge1007 "nowhere to go... nothing to do", suggests idleness. Idleness does not develop individual character. A helpless born baby needs to develop into a moral and wise human being. The journey of Personalities is experiences and achieving goals. Mental idleness is a lazy sunburn. What is idleness's contribution to self, family, and society?
@@steveflorida8699 True and effort is necessary for all things, but I think - correct me if I am wrong - Antal Perge's words point to the idea that "effort" (in general) will not do anything with regards to Being. You cannot "will" or "move" yourself into it, there is nothing phenomenal - any object or experience - that is capable of passing that threshold. It's a fundamental thing. Of course, the paying of the house, the providing for family still happens and needs to happen, but that's not what this is about.
Thank you, Rupert, for sharing these incredible insights with us. As for "I Am That," it is definitely one of my favourite books. What a resonance I feel with the so-called "Fiery Sage" of Bombay, every time I reread his book. The love that he felt for seekers is so palpable. So, too, is yours--for everyone. Blessings. 🙏
I am god and this page, this video, is a dream I'm having. If you don't want to share in this dream, never ever repeat this phrase (call it a mantra) while under the influence of a psychedelic: "This Is It . . This Is It . . This Is It . .." PS: "This Is It" is also the title of an Alan Watts' book.
Feel blessed.. and at times i feel like telling one and all about the secret of our being.. as I am slowly feeling the quiet within me, but then I must halt,, as each one in his own time finds the key.
Love listening to you! Although I seem to be always searching for answers about life, I find that I already know them and always have. Strange, but true.
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
It's like seeing a bright light inside one of those chiseled crystal prisms. Everyone sees a different angle and different refraction of rainbows depending on their viewpoint. It's all very distracting, but everyone sees the same glimpse. If you turn and see the prism from different angles slowly you start to see the light is not inside. Then you feel warm and turn around and realize the sun is behind you.
To those who question seemingly idleness? From " I am That" book: Questioner: To be content with mere being seems to be a most selfish way of passing time. Nisargadatta: A most worthy way of being selfish! By all means be selfish by foregoing everything but the Self. When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in Love, pure and simple, addressed to none, denied to none. Stay in that Love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate yourself and love the investigation and you will solve not only your own problems but also the problems of humanity. You will know what to do. Do not ask superficial questions; apply yourself to fundamentals, to the very roots of your being. From: I AM THAT Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Oh Rupert I have been watching your videos and reading your books for six years almost at a daily basis. Your words are so easy to understand but so difficult to put in practice !!!
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
A quiet mind…undistorted by desires and fears…free from ideas and opinions… clear on all levels , is needed to to reflect the reality. Be clear, calm, quiet and detached and all simply is. One need only remove the transient happenings to realize the pure experience of the self…neither adding to or taking away from that which is.
Thank you Rupert, this was a beautiful video. Be blessed ans thank you for sharing some of Nisargadatta's precious teachings :) Also, see you on the retreat, this will be my first time attending one :0
💖 Here we go finally; BACK TO THE SOURCE! Let's face it; $pirituality is a TRAP in a way; it's always side tracking, bypassing. Here is one of the possible reasons; It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
I see a copy of Daughter of Fire behind you. I was with Mrs Tweedie. Such a wonderful woman. Loved this reading. I Am That has been the one book I’ve kept close for 30 years.
💖 Here we go finally; BACK TO THE SOURCE! Let's face it; $pirituality is a TRAP in a way; it's always side tracking, bypassing. Here is one of the possible reasons; It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says "IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..." ... But guess what; There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍 When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
At 9.08 he says the Caribbean beach is not really sand, sea and sky, but stillness and nothing. Who would prefer that, or the screen rather than the movie! Save those for when we're dead. We evolved to perceive the world as our senses inform us. Appreciate it.
I’m not here to criticize Rupert in any way, as I love him, and I loved this video/pointing. But I was shocked to hear him say that when Nisagadatta uses the word consciousness he means awareness, as if they’re synonymous. Nisargadatta is one of the few non-dual teachers/clarifiers I’ve read who DOESN’T use these words synonymously. When he says consciousness, he’s actually saying antahkarana, which my copy of the book defines as: “the psyche, mind. Mind in a collective sense, including intelligence (buddhi), ego (ahamkara), and mind (manas).” So in the translated Nisargaddatta consciousness is basically the entirety of mind with a little “m.” Awareness is the source from which that arises. That’s why you’ll repeatedly hear him talk about “going beyond consciousness.” (Which was even part of Rupert’s selection.) If you go into Nisargadatta’s work thinking that he’s using consciousness and awareness to mean the same thing, you’ll come away VERY confused (as you can’t go “beyond” awareness). To be fair, there are places where he does use “consciousness” in a way that could easily also work as awareness, but I’m unsure if that’s due to limited options with translating words that have no English equivalent or if, as the activity of Awareness, it isn’t misleading to phrase it that way. (I mean, either way you interpret it in those instances, it works.) Again, this was in no way meant to be critical of what Rupert’s actually saying here. Just wanted to give people a heads up in case you ever hear someone claiming that Nisargadatta says there’s something beyond consciousness. And there are other writings/teachings that use awareness and consciousness differently. If they say something like, “consciousness is passing” you’ll know they’re not using it to mean awareness. ☮️
Agree. I have found Michael James's many many (many) videos on Ramana's writings very helpful in clarifying this. Nisargadatta's words I think can be confusing as he does not spell this all out very explicitly. But I Am That definitely stopped me short the first time I read it, many years ago. Thank you Rupert.
My mind still fights. It doesn’t want to let go of the image of itself. I see moments of letting go, but my god it doesn’t stop fighting. I don’t hate it for what it does, it’s trying to hold control even though it knows control is illusion, yet it still fights. It’s causing great and profound sadness in this sphere I experience. I crave connection to this stillness, yet I fight. It’s confusing and I grow sadder.
Let me try to bring you relief, Matthew. Suppose you awaken from a dream and could dream that dream again with ONE difference only: this time you KNOW that you are dreaming. But you still wouldn't know what was going to happen or how the dream would end. Would your experience of that very same dream not be COMPLETELY different? Just because you shifted from the personal perspective to the correct perspective? Now here comes the shock. Try to apply the same shift of perspective to the dream called life. If you keep trying you discover the natural state, the great stillness where all is well.
@@GeertMeertens Thank you Geert. You have helped; Its a dream, and I am waking up to that reality. A simple and subtle shift in perspective, yet profoundly rewarding. I'm utterly in awe of it.
An understanding towards anything enlightening will be easier found by dismissing the 'he' in any god..for its clear any fragments of holiness is apart from present day man. Her Highness is closer to the path .
I still enjoy entertaining the vision that we are entrapped in an alien camp for remedial and fallen species. If you reach Samadhi then you get to leave the planet and rejoin your parent species...
Thanx so much Rupert. I was wondering if there’s a way I can email you to share some thing that has been happening to this character, Angel. While reading the book, Rhonda Byrne’s, “ The Greatest Secret”. For the past two years, apparently… There has been a colossal free fall. But lately there seems to be some confusion with radical non-duality speakers, Saying, that what we really are, which there is no we but that it has nothing to do with awareness or consciousness? Can you please elaborate on this, because, I don’t resonate with what some apparent radical non-duality speakers are saying when it comes to this. I understand that Words, labels and concepts, can muddy this….as it’s hard to talk about. However, then I’ve had a couple of other apparent non-duality speakers say that there most definitely is awareness and consciousness. So please let me know if there’s a way, I could speak with you sometime. Thank you….✨
Rupert thank you for your sharing. I wonder if I might share with you a poem set to music which I composed that reflects the teachings? I could leave a link to it somewhere if you would like.
What created the mind? Is it all not a part of That which is, the I Am? The creations of the mind come from somewhere. Even our "spiritual" ponderings such as this reflection, are a creation of the mind. Perhaps then in our stillness, we rest, as in the metaphorical story of God creating the world, in the bible, "He rested on the 7th day." We step out of the self as creator and rest in the Presence.
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
- NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
Awesome!
My fave Maharaj quote by a landslide...goosebumps every time!
"I am nothing... I am everything" is a tennis ball being constantly hit back and forth, with no logical foundational home.
Planetary humans are not "everything". Humans are something. They are personalities on the awakening journey to find, know, and be with the universal source of Life.
This has poetic content and inspires tremendous feeling, but resonates only with those internal things that are so often such terrible guides...
@@steveflorida8699 Yes, but of course he wasn't a human. He was 'nothing' when relating to his source, and everything when relating to the world/universe.
Nisargadatta Maharaj is the best
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
"So far you have loved so many things, but have you loved THAT which loves"
Whatever I’m doing, receiving a UA-cam notification from Rupert stops me in my tracks and I listen.
I want to see a series with Rupert sat by the fire with a hot chocolate, reading us the classics. You know it makes sense Rupert!
"In stillness all things can be known." - steps to knowledge
I would love a tour through your bookshelves 😍
There is a story told by Stephen Wolinsky ( a disciple of SNM ). He says they we gathered in Maharaj’s room listened to his lectures when a well known yoga instructor enters the room and begins dialoguing with Maharaj. Maharaj asked the man “Who are you?” The man begins telling Maharaj with certainty and fervor about himself “I’m a yoga instructor, meditation teacher” etc. Patiently waiting for the man to finish telling Maharaj everything he claims to be, Maharaj looks at him and says “that’s not it”. Stephen was standing right behind the man and says it was like the man was made out of glass and Maharaj had thrown a stone right through the man and completed shattered his perceptions.
This story is a great analogy to summarize what had happened to me when I read “I am That” for the first time.
When we understand the contents of our mind and the roots of these contents, we understand we are constantly projecting our own myopic views into the world.
Eventually we begin to look at the mind so intensely that it becomes still and almost effortlessly our perception dissociates from our minds and our bodies and our true nature reveals itself “spontaneously”. It’s truly something to marvel at.
The one thing standing in the way of seeing our true nature is the mind and it’s constant mechanisms of comparison, judegement, divison, projections, etc.
Take care of your mind and body, carefully watch what you feed your mind/body, just know at the deepest “level” of your being. Your true nature stands alone and permeates peace and love through all aspects of life.
By letting go, you gain all! Being absolutely free is beyond anything experience can bring!
Thank you my dear Rupert whom I consider my friend although we haven’t met I feel I’ve always known you . A million thanks you being stillness to my heart .
Rupert has two of the Longchenpa texts on his shelf. Nice.
जिस मरने से जग डरे, मेरो मन आनंद ।
The World is afraid of dying, I find bliss in dying
~ Saint Kabir
To The - The Great Stillness !!! Amen
“If you want to know your nature you must have yourself in mind all the time until the secret of your being is revealed.”
Sasha: Where did you get this quote?
This is great message.
This is by Nisargadatta Maharaj.
So happy that there are now 178,000 subscribers. We want to reach one million! Thank you for your invaluable channel.
Hello Rupert. Thank you. Nisargadatta Maharaj videos on UA-cam is how I learnt about meditation and consciouness a few years ago. His words were a “total shock” to me because they were truth. He is really a revelation for me. Thx.
His book is also a must. Thank you.
Absolutely- a tremendous shock. I remember the first time I read "I Am That" and I was shaken. Nothing like this had ever happened before. Truly shaken, and there was a singular clarity.
I AM ✨🧘♂️✨
Thank you so much
✨Mahalo Rupert❤️Sharing Truth✨
I read I Am That years ago, but it never really clicked until I started listening to Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup. Now it makes so much more sense.
Initially for me it was Swami Sarvapriyananda and then Atamananda Udasin, through Advaita Vedanta (Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramesh Balsekar)
Other great teachers followed; Rupert included.
It clicked for me when I listened to
Mustardo Katsup.
Incredibly Profound
Had an NDE and did several Ayahuasca Ceremony’s, what he over views is correct.
One who has really experienced the reality can deliver it to the seeker. That's why guru shishya legacy is established since ages.
Thank you for this Rupert. I have been seeking for quite a while and it finally has occurred that this "me" entity, it has been seeking to improve, get somewhere, understand, figure out things and rather recently noticed that the "me", after all this time seeking, has not once even gotten close to puzzling out non-duality.
After realizing this, mind was on the precipice of being dropped, who is going to drop it and how, then there was some fear but after hearing you speak on Stillness, for some reason that sort of finalized that the "me/mind" had to be side-stepped and ignored/dis-identified with in order to be at peace. It has nothing to do with effort! That is what the mind is doing is making an effort to get somewhere, achieve something, enlightenment BUT again it has nothing to do with that, so side-step it. What a relief. What a revelation. 🙂
Nisargadatta said, "“It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.” Side-step the mind because it is not any help in realizing the true nature. Mind is basically traffic that needs to be side-stepped and there is peace in that.
Based on my decades of trying to reconcile Vedanta and modern physics (esp quantum mechanics) Let me respectfully offer an alternative view to Sri Nisargadatta namely "I AM NOT THAT". While I completely agree that everything in the visible universe is indeed an "illusion" (Maya, a 3-D holographic movie- etc) every "particle" and every "event" is indeed a "dream character" and sequence" that appear and disappear in the Dreamer's (GOD?) consciousness. We are there to serve EXACTLY the same purpose that actors in a movie or a play do, namely to "entertain" the audience, and in our case, an audience of ONE. I therefore believe it is erroneous to confuse the dream character with the Dreamer who is merely "observing & enjoying" our wild and crazy behaviors. Our best (and ONLY) course of action is to ACCEPT this stark reality and continue with our "virtual" existence according to the casting of our role assigned by lottery. Thus, I AM THAT can be rephrased as "I AM (for the entertainment) of THAT. 🙏
The phrase "I am that" is used by maharaj as a piinter not to label it as the final truth. He used it because of the limitation of words in explaining the Brahman. "I AM" is the closest to the truth. But the final truth is beyond the "I am". Its the awareness between and beyond the knower and known.
If you are referring knower as the " I am", you have misunderstood. The knower rises when a body is born and sets when it dies leaving an imprint of memories in the universal conousiness.
Such eloquence! Ahh. Thank you 😊 💓.
This book has completely changed my life. It has a very interesting story for entering my life which gives it a stronger significance. 🙏
I love you Rupert. Thank you for bringing me back to myself again
Thanks Rupert!
Summer 2009 .I searched and found this book in the library of a J. Krishnamurti place in Varanasi.
It was like a spiritual big bang for me. Since then..what a journey!ॐ ❤
13:45 love this fragment, very profound !!!
"I am that" by maharaj is the holiest spiritual guidance book ; and understanding would just flow if is explained by Rupert .how I wish Rupert could read out and explain the entire book
Me too!
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
@@antalperge1007 "nowhere to go... nothing to do", suggests idleness. Idleness does not develop individual character. A helpless born baby needs to develop into a moral and wise human being.
The journey of Personalities is experiences and achieving goals. Mental idleness is a lazy sunburn. What is idleness's contribution to self, family, and society?
@@steveflorida8699 True and effort is necessary for all things, but I think - correct me if I am wrong - Antal Perge's words point to the idea that "effort" (in general) will not do anything with regards to Being. You cannot "will" or "move" yourself into it, there is nothing phenomenal - any object or experience - that is capable of passing that threshold. It's a fundamental thing. Of course, the paying of the house, the providing for family still happens and needs to happen, but that's not what this is about.
Thank you, Rupert, for sharing these incredible insights with us. As for "I Am That," it is definitely one of my favourite books. What a resonance I feel with the so-called "Fiery Sage" of Bombay, every time I reread his book. The love that he felt for seekers is so palpable. So, too, is yours--for everyone. Blessings. 🙏
Thank you Rupert, your kindness beams!
Thank you sir
THANK YOU!
I literally just bought this book… thank you. ❤
Thank you Rupert. I am blessed to have found you. Thank you.
🌈 The Mind is a prism, We have an infinite spectrum to choose from.🌈🪶😇 Grace Victoria 🦋💕
Thanku sir very much
How Beautiful!
God bless you Rupert.
I am god and this page, this video, is a dream I'm having. If you don't want to share in this dream, never ever repeat this phrase (call it a mantra) while under the influence of a psychedelic: "This Is It . . This Is It . . This Is It . .."
PS: "This Is It" is also the title of an Alan Watts' book.
There is a lesson here that I resist yet struggle to learn, that I am drawn to and run from as with God itself.
Somehow I read the title as the great silliness.
This is Great we are only In doing So🌹🌹
Thank you 🙏
Love you rupert love you.
Feel blessed.. and at times i feel like telling one and all about the secret of our being.. as I am slowly feeling the quiet within me, but then I must halt,, as each one in his own time finds the key.
Thankyou Rupert, ❤
wow wow wow thank you 🙏🏾
We have similar contents on our bookshelves :)
Love listening to you! Although I seem to be always searching for answers about life, I find that I already know them and always have. Strange, but true.
Great stillness ☀️🌙❤️
Wonderful🙏
Brilliant and illuminating, as always. Thank you.
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
It's like seeing a bright light inside one of those chiseled crystal prisms. Everyone sees a different angle and different refraction of rainbows depending on their viewpoint. It's all very distracting, but everyone sees the same glimpse. If you turn and see the prism from different angles slowly you start to see the light is not inside. Then you feel warm and turn around and realize the sun is behind you.
What an excellent and inspirational explanation. I am excited about sharing this with others. Thank you.
One does not find truth. But truth finds itself.
Thank you Rupert .. being Indian i myself did not know about this great book by Nisargadatta Maharaj🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, this was something I needed.
Ur voice is gods voice ❤
When you are not attached only then can you worship❤️
To those who question seemingly idleness?
From " I am That" book:
Questioner:
To be content with mere being seems to be a most selfish way of passing time.
Nisargadatta:
A most worthy way of being selfish! By all means be selfish by foregoing everything but the Self.
When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All
distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in Love, pure and simple,
addressed to none, denied to none. Stay in that Love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate
yourself and love the investigation and you will solve not only your own problems but also the
problems of humanity. You will know what to do. Do not ask superficial questions; apply yourself to
fundamentals, to the very roots of your being.
From: I AM THAT
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Oh Rupert I have been watching your videos and reading your books for six years almost at a daily basis. Your words are so easy to understand but so difficult to put in practice !!!
I’m six years in as well with Rupert. Happy to be traveling with you🙏
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
A quiet mind…undistorted by desires and fears…free from ideas and opinions… clear on all levels , is needed to to reflect the reality.
Be clear, calm, quiet and detached and all simply is.
One need only remove the transient happenings to realize the pure experience of the self…neither adding to or taking away from that which is.
I am humble by goodness beauty and truth
I have this book and try to read it every day along with Silence of the heart by Robert Adams
Unknown and unknowable by mind. 🙏
Thank you Rupert, this was a beautiful video. Be blessed ans thank you for sharing some of Nisargadatta's precious teachings :) Also, see you on the retreat, this will be my first time attending one :0
انا احبك كثيرا كلامك جميل وراقي
Beautiful beautiful beautiful ♥️♥️♥️🙏🏻
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
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Be still and know that I am a millionaire
Be still and know that I am healthy
Be still and know that I am
Neville & Nisargadatta 💖
I see a copy of Daughter of Fire behind you. I was with Mrs Tweedie. Such a wonderful woman. Loved this reading. I Am That has been the one book I’ve kept close for 30 years.
Ditto on both
Om
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ASMR 😴😴
💖 Here we go finally;
BACK TO THE SOURCE!
Let's face it;
$pirituality is a TRAP in a way;
it's always side tracking, bypassing.
Here is one of the possible reasons;
It IS hard to put this in practice, because most of the teachers says
"IT IS HARD, IT TAKES YEARS AND YEARS OF PRACTICE..."
... But guess what;
There is nowhere to go and nothing to do, because THAT is everywhere, every time 😍
When I've found Rupert and Dr. Frank Kinslow (the father of Quantum Entrainment, QE)... Geez... I've never looked back 😍
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At 9.08 he says the Caribbean beach is not really sand, sea and sky, but stillness and nothing. Who would prefer that, or the screen rather than the movie! Save those for when we're dead. We evolved to perceive the world as our senses inform us. Appreciate it.
Naham Deham
Koham Soham
Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Make this view natural, that's a worthy aim / result.
I see nothing has really changed.
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I’m not here to criticize Rupert in any way, as I love him, and I loved this video/pointing. But I was shocked to hear him say that when Nisagadatta uses the word consciousness he means awareness, as if they’re synonymous. Nisargadatta is one of the few non-dual teachers/clarifiers I’ve read who DOESN’T use these words synonymously. When he says consciousness, he’s actually saying antahkarana, which my copy of the book defines as: “the psyche, mind. Mind in a collective sense, including intelligence (buddhi), ego (ahamkara), and mind (manas).”
So in the translated Nisargaddatta consciousness is basically the entirety of mind with a little “m.” Awareness is the source from which that arises. That’s why you’ll repeatedly hear him talk about “going beyond consciousness.” (Which was even part of Rupert’s selection.) If you go into Nisargadatta’s work thinking that he’s using consciousness and awareness to mean the same thing, you’ll come away VERY confused (as you can’t go “beyond” awareness).
To be fair, there are places where he does use “consciousness” in a way that could easily also work as awareness, but I’m unsure if that’s due to limited options with translating words that have no English equivalent or if, as the activity of Awareness, it isn’t misleading to phrase it that way. (I mean, either way you interpret it in those instances, it works.)
Again, this was in no way meant to be critical of what Rupert’s actually saying here. Just wanted to give people a heads up in case you ever hear someone claiming that Nisargadatta says there’s something beyond consciousness. And there are other writings/teachings that use awareness and consciousness differently. If they say something like, “consciousness is passing” you’ll know they’re not using it to mean awareness. ☮️
Agree. I have found Michael James's many many (many) videos on Ramana's writings very helpful in clarifying this. Nisargadatta's words I think can be confusing as he does not spell this all out very explicitly. But I Am That definitely stopped me short the first time I read it, many years ago. Thank you Rupert.
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The Heart Sutra says: "Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form, sensation. Form is exactly Emptiness, Emptiness is exactly Form"
-Reality lies in objectivity.
Memory gives the illusion of continuity and repetitiveness creates the idea of causality' - Sri Nisargadatta marahaj.
رئيت افلامك في قنوات عربية كنت لا أعلم أن
لديك قناة خاصة بك الان اشتركت بقناتك بعدما
عرفتها
My mind still fights. It doesn’t want to let go of the image of itself. I see moments of letting go, but my god it doesn’t stop fighting. I don’t hate it for what it does, it’s trying to hold control even though it knows control is illusion, yet it still fights. It’s causing great and profound sadness in this sphere I experience. I crave connection to this stillness, yet I fight. It’s confusing and I grow sadder.
Let me try to bring you relief, Matthew. Suppose you awaken from a dream and could dream that dream again with ONE difference only: this time you KNOW that you are dreaming. But you still wouldn't know what was going to happen or how the dream would end. Would your experience of that very same dream not be COMPLETELY different? Just because you shifted from the personal perspective to the correct perspective? Now here comes the shock. Try to apply the same shift of perspective to the dream called life. If you keep trying you discover the natural state, the great stillness where all is well.
@@GeertMeertens Thank you Geert. You have helped; Its a dream, and I am waking up to that reality. A simple and subtle shift in perspective, yet profoundly rewarding. I'm utterly in awe of it.
Meditate on the I AM until you re-cognise the I AM as utterly illusory. - Nisargadatta
An understanding towards anything enlightening will be easier found by dismissing the 'he' in any god..for its clear any fragments of holiness is apart from present day man. Her Highness is closer to the path .
I still enjoy entertaining the vision that we are entrapped in an alien camp for remedial and fallen species. If you reach Samadhi then you get to leave the planet and rejoin your parent species...
Thanx so much Rupert. I was wondering if there’s a way I can email you to share some thing that has been happening to this character, Angel. While reading the book, Rhonda Byrne’s, “ The Greatest Secret”. For the past two years, apparently… There has been a colossal free fall. But lately there seems to be some confusion with radical non-duality speakers, Saying, that what we really are, which there is no we but that it has nothing to do with awareness or consciousness? Can you please elaborate on this, because, I don’t resonate with what some apparent radical non-duality speakers are saying when it comes to this. I understand that Words, labels and concepts, can muddy this….as it’s hard to talk about. However, then I’ve had a couple of other apparent non-duality speakers say that there most definitely is awareness and consciousness. So please let me know if there’s a way, I could speak with you sometime. Thank you….✨
Rupert thank you for your sharing. I wonder if I might share with you a poem set to music which I composed that reflects the teachings? I could leave a link to it somewhere if you would like.
What created the mind? Is it all not a part of That which is, the I Am? The creations of the mind come from somewhere. Even our "spiritual" ponderings such as this reflection, are a creation of the mind. Perhaps then in our stillness, we rest, as in the metaphorical story of God creating the world, in the bible, "He rested on the 7th day." We step out of the self as creator and rest in the Presence.
How can I get in touch with you…will go to your website perhaps. Thank you for this today. ❤
I definitely need to lose some weight to get through "the door". Such a very little door. Itty bitty. I have to take my glasses off to see it.
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Plato taught the same concepts