Who is the 'I' Who Chooses - Rupert Spira

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  • Опубліковано 12 жов 2016
  • Podcast "The Essence of Non-Duality"
    by Rupert Spira
    available on iTunes: goo.gl/ia3hsS
    non-duality.rupertspira.com/
    / rupertspira

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  • @nsbd90now
    @nsbd90now Рік тому +16

    Rupert Spira seems so able to speak of the human experience of reality in such a modern, clear, simple, and easily-understandable manner.

  • @sofiahngoran-nguessan5385
    @sofiahngoran-nguessan5385 3 роки тому +31

    while listening to this, I am reminded of the quote in the beginning of A Course in Miracles - "Nothing real can be threatened, Nothing unreal exists, Herein lies the peace of God".

    • @Noct343
      @Noct343 3 роки тому +1

      Very wise words, sofiah.

    • @Misslotusification
      @Misslotusification 2 роки тому +11

      The opening words to A Course in Miracles (ACIM) are a direct reflection of the teaching in the Bhagavad Gita which states, “That which is, never ceases to be; that which is not, never comes into existence.”

  • @TheBrakedown
    @TheBrakedown 8 місяців тому +4

    The more I listen to these videos the more i realize I just need to surrender my questions and let them be dissolved in silence

  • @Vinodkumar-dy1hv
    @Vinodkumar-dy1hv 6 місяців тому +2

    This conversation clearly shows that one needs to be intelligent and attentive not only to answer but also even to ask questions!...

  • @carmenl163
    @carmenl163 5 років тому +15

    Byron Katie says: "You can either believe a thought, or investigate it. There is no other option." Now I understand this. Everytime I investigate a (stressful) thought, I change my limited knowledge, because my ego/separeted self has limited my pure knowledge. Thank you Rupert Spira and I love how thoughtful you are, answering these questions!

  • @harjotmahal8985
    @harjotmahal8985 5 років тому +6

    They say, sages had great difficulty explaining reality to the people.Rupert seems to be doing that with such ease.

  • @bobbymurray7035
    @bobbymurray7035 7 років тому +18

    Deeply profound. "... ponder the implications of what you have just discovered ..." indeed, sir. Thank you. Grateful that Consciousness modulates your apparent form.

  • @smileifyoudontexist6320
    @smileifyoudontexist6320 3 роки тому +3

    " I dont think I get it, But something gets it"....hahahahahaaaa Thats the Gold

  • @ajmandalia63
    @ajmandalia63 5 років тому +16

    Simply a brilliant teacher. He has such a wonderful way to explain the concept well. Thank you.

  • @JorgeRodriguez-nx5eq
    @JorgeRodriguez-nx5eq 4 роки тому +9

    Great!! Thoughts are an appearance in the same empty space of awareness where the sound of a passing car appear. That means that if you give the same careless attention to the thoughts that you give to the passing car, the separate self will dye by starvation.

    • @pihanrossa6275
      @pihanrossa6275 4 роки тому

      You nailed it, my friend. You nailed it.

    • @joseph.chahine
      @joseph.chahine 2 роки тому

      Alan Watts basically says the EXACT thing, about treating thoughts like you do sounds 👍

    • @snorremuis
      @snorremuis 7 місяців тому

      Well they won't die. Just like the passing cars keep passing

  • @swamiwhatsoever295
    @swamiwhatsoever295 7 років тому +24

    The Awareness (knowing)has taken a form of some beautiful words coming out of mouth of Rupert.Amazing video. worth watching over and over again

  • @praveshdhawan3842
    @praveshdhawan3842 5 років тому +5

    Great teaching. Very fortunate to see such teaching so easily. Thanks alot.🙏🙏

  • @ericwong3746
    @ericwong3746 5 років тому +7

    Rupert has a deep insight and he tries to explain in more sensible way. Mind is like a child and it will take all things literally it is said. There are two types of observation , one is controlled and other is free.In controlled observation means one is living in a house where all members are fighting and one is trying to observe these members and trying not to participate or not to choose any one of them . In free observation he understood one thing that this house exists because he is member of house and when he does not exist means house too. Mind learns how to control its reaction if any thought appear on screen and it is not a free observation. Problem is not in screen or what appears on it or just not to react with what appears on screen but problem is that, this screen and play on screen appear because you are there.

  • @saararauvala9048
    @saararauvala9048 8 місяців тому +1

    This is exactly the same questions I have had on my mind and I finally understand this! Thank you Rupert Spira ❤

  • @maryl.2787
    @maryl.2787 Рік тому +2

    Let's talk about the greenery around those lilies...it may be a little much.

  • @sanekabc
    @sanekabc 5 років тому +5

    The email analogy falls short.The screen itself has the potential to reveal text but the screen itself does not decide what will appear.

  • @MayaLove1976
    @MayaLove1976 3 роки тому +2

    Within 5 minutes, mind blown! 🤯😮🤪

  • @vivekam101
    @vivekam101 Місяць тому

    Brilliant

  • @swapnaldubey8162
    @swapnaldubey8162 8 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for this video, such a gem ❤

  • @rajasekarkunjithapatham7021
    @rajasekarkunjithapatham7021 3 роки тому +1

    Long live Rupert

  • @myndspot
    @myndspot Рік тому +1

    I really love the question ... AND your answer to it. Brillant & inspiring - thank you 🙂

  • @VenusLover17
    @VenusLover17 6 років тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @atmannityananda-academia
    @atmannityananda-academia 6 років тому +14

    The thoughts appear in the mental space in the same way that objects appear in the physical space.
    Awareness is beyond physical and mental space.
    Awareness doesn't assume any form. The mental substance becomes thought or image. Awareness remains ever as it is, changeless and immovable.
    Awareness also cannot experience (perceive) directly thoughts, feelings , objects. The buddhi by the light of awareness that reflects on it, is the perceiver.
    Neither the awareness by itself not the buddhi by it self have the capacity to perceive. The (apparent) union of awareness with buddhi makes.percetion possible.
    When the egoic mind and the ego itself dissolves by practice and constant meditation in the silent space of awareness then the buddhi becomes identical with awareness, becomes an enlightened buddhi, and the human being with the enlightened buddhi is called a Buddha.

    • @robbiejohal93
      @robbiejohal93 5 років тому +1

      So if single pure awareness is choosing everything through all the human beings ,and is all knowing ,why this lady(awareness) is asking questions to rupert(same awareness) ??

    • @sanjitkg
      @sanjitkg 4 роки тому +1

      @@robbiejohal93 The lady is apparently asking Rupert the question from her separate awarenessto Rupert's separate one. But, non-dualistically, their apparently separate awarenessess are really one n the same contiguous and a shared pure awareness because a good anwser lays hidden in and always borne out of a question.. the question n answer being one n the same, occurring within a shared consciousness.

    • @TaxemicFanatic
      @TaxemicFanatic 3 роки тому

      @@robbiejohal93 human beings, and all other beings.

    • @barischhh
      @barischhh 11 місяців тому

      what is that mental substance that becomes thought or image?
      What it is made of?

    • @barischhh
      @barischhh 11 місяців тому

      What you are talking about is just naming the same substance of reality into thousand. It's not non duality. You are trying to understand reality trough duality. Rupert is talking about consciousness only model. And you are taking his teaching, dividing into thousands and then mixing them together after a non-existing separate self dissepears. Can you see what you so called Ego is trying to do to here? :)

  • @eternalfreedom9557
    @eternalfreedom9557 5 місяців тому

    It's wonderful ❤

  • @ghanem.sbaih87
    @ghanem.sbaih87 Рік тому

    Thank you👍

  • @johannboeing-messing979
    @johannboeing-messing979 4 роки тому

    Thank you

  • @yungblade7
    @yungblade7 2 роки тому +1

    This video was explosive perfect explanation and questions.

  • @aceofspadesInd
    @aceofspadesInd 7 років тому +4

    One of the every good question asked. The one who speaks in you is me(Bhagwat Geeta). who says its my body.Body are soul are same but appear separate due to the illusion of time.You know when the GOD came as a being? He came NOW. he came now in your mind as a being.

  • @tattvamasmi
    @tattvamasmi 3 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤Amazing❤❤❤

  • @fabianandresdemurogarcia8725
    @fabianandresdemurogarcia8725 7 місяців тому

    Amazing skill!
    Thanks Rupert.

    • @HB-wb6lc
      @HB-wb6lc 7 місяців тому

      Neuroscientists and psychologists have long assumed individual decisions are made by intention in the brain by what they call executive function. But no scientist has ever found such a function or even evidence of it in the brain. A few but growing number are admitting it is not there and it’s time to find another source of thoughts and the conclusion is in universal awareness - meaning Rupert’s explanation is consistent with where science is being led.

  • @kathiduran9583
    @kathiduran9583 5 років тому +1

    Omg!!! I was SO excited at the implications that *I* discovered from his explanation even I was stunned and her casualness! Then I remembered a time I might have done that also. Different paths yehawwwwwww!! :)

  • @swapnaldubey8162
    @swapnaldubey8162 8 місяців тому

    3:43 causelessness of consciousness reflects in causelessness of arising a thought In similar fashion as eternity reflected as time and limitlessness reflects in space. Just wanted to write it down as this came across in my mind while hearing this.

  • @widipermono854
    @widipermono854 3 місяці тому

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @atmannityananda-academia
    @atmannityananda-academia 6 років тому +1

    By nature there are things of our selves that function automatically by the instictive intelligence, and things of our selves that we must train in order to develop the capacity to use them voluntary. So we can for example,, to learn to play tennis skillfully.
    The mind is also something we can train as we wish and make it do or not do what we like. If we don't train the mind then the mind becomes the master instead of being a servant.
    So, of course we can have control of our thoughts if we train our mind seriously for a long time. We can choose what kind of thoughts we will entertain and what not. We can also root out the kind the thinking patterns we don't want and program our subconscious mind to think only what we want. We can be the king of our mind.

  • @WallySoto-yi8fz
    @WallySoto-yi8fz 25 днів тому

    Language & its possessives is just the ultimate impostor in the storyline.

  • @not_melkor
    @not_melkor 3 роки тому +1

    Most spiritual seekers are confused than a normal person who just goes about their job. And in a weird way, are also more receptive to the teaching.

  • @taramoschetto7086
    @taramoschetto7086 6 місяців тому

    The woman has almost the exact speaking cadence of Tori Amos ❤

  • @darrenwalshe8513
    @darrenwalshe8513 3 роки тому

    So all is awareness but the mind tells us otherwise

  • @skvirk2669
    @skvirk2669 Рік тому

    “ I think 🤔 I don’t get it” is also appearing in the knowing, made of the knowing and disappeared in the knowing.
    Thanks Rupert

  • @bhojpuriya2012
    @bhojpuriya2012 5 місяців тому

    We can also use analogy of kailedescope

  • @egodust11
    @egodust11 6 років тому +2

    Where/what is the origin of your thoughts? It is the "field" of Being.
    This correlates to what Einstein said: "The Field is the governing agency of the Particle." If we substitute Brahman/Source-Singularity for Field, and the Jivatman/ego-Mind for Particle, the answer is simple. IOW, the individual is not the generator or agency responsible for the creation of any thought, speech, or action.

  • @Rajeswar07
    @Rajeswar07 Рік тому +1

    Life changing thank u soo much

  • @kamleshbagrecha7957
    @kamleshbagrecha7957 3 роки тому

    🙏🏻🍉🍏😊 thank you sadhguru

  • @SunilMagesh87
    @SunilMagesh87 4 роки тому +2

    18:04 : if I would have named what my thoughts are made of I would have said: Memories / Expectations / Activities I can do while I’m on the couch while have the least “trouble” (it’s 11pm).
    Could you please respond to my response to your question ?
    ----
    2nd question:
    Are we just a neural node (in a vast neural network), picking a thought/action to should be done for the greater purpose for which the neural network was created?
    - as the neural node, we can’t access the information about the ask from the neural network. (IMHO)
    Please care to comment.
    P.S.: Love your videos. Thank you.

    • @smileifyoudontexist6320
      @smileifyoudontexist6320 3 роки тому +1

      @Sunil Magesh Memories / Expectations / Activities are the content of the thoughts. But what is the substance of the thought itself? ( the content of the Record is music, the substance of the Record is Vinyl)
      We are a sort of a neural node I think? But not that connects from outside space. But it connects to an inside space.No words are broadcast there! That network transmits only Pure Beingness.
      Youre Awareness itself is being transmitted from inside... projected out
      Maybe this is answers your question? ? ( :

    • @SunilMagesh87
      @SunilMagesh87 3 роки тому +1

      @@smileifyoudontexist6320 Thank you for taking the time to respond! I got it. I understand now.

    • @smileifyoudontexist6320
      @smileifyoudontexist6320 3 роки тому

      Also you hint at "Connecting" to something else "Neural network" to find the action that should be done for the greater good....
      What you see as the Intelligent Network is "Your own Self" that you dont recognize as yourself

    • @smileifyoudontexist6320
      @smileifyoudontexist6320 3 роки тому +1

      @@SunilMagesh87 I just see your response now.... My "Emails" dont always update in real time... ( :

  • @jill5309
    @jill5309 5 років тому

    In a video i just watched, RS asks what are thought made of and my thoughts seem to come from emotions.

    • @carmenl163
      @carmenl163 5 років тому +1

      Actually it is the other way around. Your emotions always come from a thought. If you think about it, it makes sense. You think of something and that makes you smile, or curious, or irritated and so on. The order of things is: think, feel, act, have.

  • @WallySoto-yi8fz
    @WallySoto-yi8fz 25 днів тому

    B!

  • @MajorCulturalDivide
    @MajorCulturalDivide Рік тому

    The experience is not that thoughts just appear. The experience is I am thinking them.

    • @barischhh
      @barischhh 11 місяців тому

      if you are thinking them then you can easily stop them.Can you stop your thoughts? If not then you have no control over that "I am" you're talking about.

  • @samlack5997
    @samlack5997 5 років тому

    If thoughts come from and go into awareness what s the role of the brain-mind

  • @doriesse824
    @doriesse824 7 років тому +2

    When he says, ""If you think you are a separate self, then I'm speaking to that separate self", who or what is he referring to as "you"? Who is the "you" that thinks they are separate (or not separate)?

  • @SrSoya-sz8cr
    @SrSoya-sz8cr 7 років тому +2

    hehe why does Rupert always have an arrangement of flowers right by his side? :)

    • @eoghansullivan5418
      @eoghansullivan5418 7 років тому +7

      Flowers are a lovely organic being to have anywhere in close proximity.
      OR
      Someone in his crew decides it would be nice
      OR
      The idea spontaneously presented itself to him and he went with it
      OR
      The flowers are gaining ground, soon they will (and probably already do) rule the earth.
      OR
      This mind doesn't know the answer
      OR
      the answer is unknowable to anyone

    • @sandhyamaltby4703
      @sandhyamaltby4703 7 років тому

      ZAYOO on

    • @VenusLover17
      @VenusLover17 6 років тому

      ZAYOO 😄

    • @pwmkeys7958
      @pwmkeys7958 3 роки тому +1

      It's a tradition amongst meditation teachers to have beauty near to enhance the experience

  • @pdvidz2266
    @pdvidz2266 5 років тому +1

    Does everyone have the same self ? Am I the same self as Joe over there even though he acts differently from me?

  • @WallySoto-yi8fz
    @WallySoto-yi8fz 25 днів тому

    The ME is an interference of ontological activity.

  • @purnimajha4231
    @purnimajha4231 6 років тому +1

    Sir I understand ur words, but stil don't understand....

    • @marcs.2408
      @marcs.2408 6 років тому

      Right, who could understand that which no longer exists, that which has already shade-shifted?

  • @bjsmith5444
    @bjsmith5444 2 роки тому +1

    He got caught out by the first question. The inconsistency was pointed out but he responded as if there was no problem. Rupert would be a great poker player.

    • @ericp888
      @ericp888 Рік тому

      F Rupert. That lady asked some very valid questions.

  • @henkkoppelaar9580
    @henkkoppelaar9580 7 років тому

    Flowers? The lifelines cut for illusory happiness?