What Is Awakening?
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2024
- A woman wants to know if her recent realisation could be called an awakening experience. Also, what can she do to adjust to this new understanding, and how can she ensure that she does not lose herself again?
Rupert says: ‘Yes, technically, in the context of the tradition that we explore here, your experience is what is referred to as awakening. But actually, you’ll never hear me use that phrase unless somebody uses it in a question. But what does awakening mean? It means you are beginning to recognise that what you essentially are is not the layers of thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, actions, relationships and memories you used to think you were, and that what you essentially are - being, or being aware - is beginning to shine through in your experience.
‘How can you make sure you don’t lose that? Put some time aside every day. Relax the focus of your attention from the content of experience - thoughts, feelings, and so on. Come back to the fact of being and rest there. You don’t have to call it formal meditation, although it is actually what meditation is. Every time you come back to being in this way, you magnify its presence in your life. In time, you’ll find that you don’t just make contact with your being during these periods each day - your being actually remains present throughout your entire day.’
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Timestamps:
0:00 Am I Having an Awakening Experience?
1:13 I Am Not Who I Think I Am
2:41 What Is Awakening?
5:11 True Confidence
5:57 How Can I Hold On to Being?
7:15 Being Is Always Present
8:15 Loving Meditation Practise
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Rupert is consistently guiding me with his teachings and I can't articulate how appreciative I am.
Same here
Wonderful. The one experiencing is a soft light, always at peace, never disturbed by what is experienced.
@youssefalaoui4286. Nothing wrong with feeling wonderful or peaceful. They're all are a phenomenon dependent on conditions. Resulting from shifting of attention.
But, that doesn't explain anything about the endless sufferings and madness.
Understanding Existence and self deceiving are not the same thing.
Religious ideologies claim that the deity God is inherently all good and all loving, and, consciouness is inherently all peaceful and happy.
Assumptions like these, are not only most likely false, illusory and delusional, but, also so self deceiving in the sense that, it deters us from understanding the nature of Existence Itself.
Cherry picking only the good and wishful qualities for a deity or consciouness can only bring self hypnosis but, never the Truth of Existence Itself.
Why would a deity or a consciouness that is all loving, all peaceful, and all fulfilled needing nothing, ever bring such endless sufferings and madness in the first place?
While Knowing Itself to be all that, and, Yet, it still chose to bring, Knowingly, the senseless sufferings and madness. Knowingly. Why?
And, it has Absolutely nothing to gain from this? Really? Then, Why?
Self deception can Never be the answer, nor, can it provide any, other than imposing a self deceiving, religious belief. Only enforcing self ignorance and self dishonesty. Nothing more.
This is a WRONG understanding of Existence.
This is a belief in a schizophrenic and psychopathic deity or a consciousness.
Only under a religious ideology, can such insane beliefs get a free pass.
Existence is not like that !
Existence has never been like that.
Self deception always comes with ear candies. Whispering only what we want to hear. Only to perpetuate the unfulfilled, while calling it already fulfilled. Only to carry out the impulses and the itches. An illusory self, Self, Always dishonest, and always deceiving Itself.
@@joajoajbPain and suffering is experienced by someone. That someone (doing the experiencing) is always at peace. This is not an assumption based on some logic, but instead it is noticed instantly upon reflection.
@@youssefalaoui4286??. The one that is screaming from pain and suffering is none other than consciouness itself. The one that which Knows.
When it knows the pain, it screams to let you know what is being experienced. You follow?
The Only One there to experience is consciouness Alone.
All the pains ,sufferings and madness are carried out by none other than consciouness and consciouness Alone from the beginning to the end. Understand?
Consciouness is Not all fulfilled. No activity can arise from that which is all fulfilled. Activity means, unfulfilled.
A happy, peaceful parent, doesn't mutilate the children to death.
A parent claming to be all loving and all peaceful, while mutilating the children, is a parent suffering from a mental disorder. A twisted psychotic, schizophrenic and psychopathic nature.
A consciouness that claims to be all loving and all peaceful, does not bring about endless sufferings and madness. From which it has absolutely nothing to gain from.
This is a WRONG understanding of Existence. This self deceiving religious ideology, has managed to get the majority of humanity to believe and accept their claims about Existence. It thrives by betting on the ignorance of many. So, it continues.
Existence is not like that.
You're hypnotizing yourself. Not discovering or understanding Nature Itself.
Understanding Existence is never about, any self or Self. Nor, about any I am, or I AM. It isn't about understanding yourself or any self, or Self.
It is really only about understanding Nature Itself.
Not, I or I Am, But, It or Nature Itself.
Take care!
Furthermore I think you are confusing A)“a good feeling” with B)the one that _has_ the feeling. We are talking about B, not A.
@@youssefalaoui4286??. My reply quickly disappeared again.
That which knows, is the one screaming in pain and suffering, no one else.
Understanding Existence is never about I, I am, I Am, self, or Self.
It is only really about understanding "IT" or NATURE ITSELF. Not, "I" ,but, IT or ITSELF.
Religious ideologies managed to get the majority of humanity to believe and accept their claims about Existence. How do you think they managed to do that?
Certainly Not by understanding Existence, but, by self deceiving thru self ignorance and self dishonesty. By betting on the ignorance of many. Just like now.
Anyway, take care!
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Thank you Celia or Cecilia for your question which I could have asked as well.Thank you Rupert for always sharing such relevant dialogues with your audience. Cheers from Colombia.
Hi Julia. I also live in Colombia and follow Rupert. My name is Corina. Nice to know you do too. Cheers
Thank you Rupert. A friend shared this with me… I didn’t realise it had been posted! This was last year when I attended one of Rupert’s webinars. I was diagnosed with adhd over a year ago and found sitting still very difficult but the more I sit and sink into Beingness, the more I want to stay there! My ‘unnecessary thoughts’ have reduced by about 50% as a result. In fact, thoughts rarely bother me at all now… I just let them come and go. Thank you 🙏
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"How can I make sure it doesn't go?" By letting go. The paradox of the spiritual adventure.
It’s like finding yourself in a dream where you are not the dreamer but the one being dreamt, and yet, your true self never sleeps. Good luck 🍀-remember to let go and surrender the dreamer. It’s time to wake up and embrace the unfolding of your true essence.
Thank you Rupert 🙏🕉️
The realization of truth comes automatically when everything stops. If a person wants to become aware of the truth they must give up all their addictions and just stop doing everything. The world keeps people sucked in to the drama of life that is all self created. Step out of all that and just sit with nothing added or taken away and the truth will become apparent. The problem is people want to have their cake and eat it too. As Jesus said you cannot serve both God and wealth. Make God your only focus giving up everything and He will be revealed to you. Give up seeking material things and give up seeking peoples acceptance and give up seeking status.
You cannot give up desires.. Desires do play a necessary role in enlightenment.. Desires will always be there, you cannot give up.. It is the mind who has the desire and it is the mind asking you to give up the desires, there will always be a conflict within you.. When abiding as awareness, you simply let the desires be and look them for what they are cuz awareness can only be aware, awareness can never chase or give up desires.. You as awareness can only detach from the outcome.. You do what you desire but detach from the outcome of it.. It's like playing a game with a group of friends, if you have no desire to play the game then it won't be fun to play with you but detaching frim the outcome of winning is needed.. We are here to enjoy human life as well and fulfill our desires without hurting others.. Nobody who is a real spiritual teacher will ask you to give up desires, they will only say to detach from the outcome.. You can still be with God and fulfill every desire that you want, God doesn't want you to give up desires, why would he want that.. See, you have a desire to give up wealth and material things, this is conflict in your own thinking, very much counterintuitive..
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Rupert is so kind and so clear. Thank you, Rupert.
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons , knocking on the door. It opens. I have been knocking from the inside. Rumi
It's so funny, when you have this realisation the first thing you think about is 'I don't want this to go away'.
Ha ha! 🙏 We’re so used to fleeting feelings of peace and joy… but ‘this’ peace and joy is our actual Self. How is it possible that ‘it’ goes away. Surely, it’s impossible! It’s just all the clutter that we pick up along the way that hides who we really are.
and not realising that we can't lose it, it's what we are. yet we delude ourselves that we've lost it and need to do something to get it back
gentle, loving practise
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Rupert never stops spittin
My first contact with a spiritual topic was a questionare about finding who i really am. That was 20 years ago. I did that test out of interest and my finding was that i am that which is aware. I thought that i had failed the test and felt that the answer was too simple, common knowledge and i was left feeling disappointed 😂 in that regard, i must say it was a rude awakening for me 😅 i will never forget it
Very simple, Find the I
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Meditation rewires the brain. It is very similar to self-hypnosis. We enter hypnotic states unwittingly and unknowingly during the day, especially when daydreaming or watching television.This alpha wave brain state makes the mind very susceptible to suggestion. The power of the subconscious mind is very great.
Any being wouldn't need to be a pain in the ass to anyone.
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Would someone please explain what practical purpose these ideas serve? Is this not just disassociation and escapism? It may be perfectly true that Hinduism is correct, there is only truly the atman and Brahman, and the individual self is an illusion, which once transcended one attains Nirvana.
My question is so what?
How does realizing this help me accomplish any of my goals? I still have to take care of my elderly parents, make money to raise a family, defend myself against criminals and so on....
I feel that if I were to embrace this idea I would lose all motivation whatsoever.
Any advice?
The thought arises that these sorts of ideas can be used for a perfect form of escapism to avoid one's own responsibilities I wonder if any of The Vedas talk about this trap?
The veda does talk of it. It indeed has drained my motivation which I had always very little. But it's ever-changing. I don't want to meditate all the time, as she says here. Actually not at all, as the death of me is imminent if I don't distract myself. It's disorienting. I usually don't open up about this as it just sounds pretensious and it's incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't realized there is the all seeing eye watching everything and never messing with anything. Was awakening blessing or a curse?
It's kinda lame to have been scammed there's an individual me to wake up I'm actually just the observing infinity and it's all one thing.
There's nothing in awakening for the person-like-pattens you have grown to identify as you. I think your questions are good and valid. Adya says if you can take 1 million or awakening, take the money as there's nothing in it for you. There really isn't. Just my opinion as tje truth is also terrifying and requires adjustment.
Sometimes I wish it hadn't happened to me. It's +1 year now. But it's ever evolving and there's no going back. Lately I've been accepting it. Accepting everything more. Not refer to past or future. Just staying in the present. But anxiety and fear are my addictions.
Just generally deriving identity, and the experience right now, from past or future. I dropped that due to Adya's advice. That really helps. It's just a matter of less drama. I had no idea how much I needed my drama. To be dramatically invested even though or maybe perhaps I've been miserable traumatized my entire life. It's still better than it's all the same.
It will happen by accident or grace. Mine was accident. It's a good laugh how you took it all so seriously and missed the most obvious thing there could ever be. I actually thought something had hit the planet and it happened to all at once. I existed my house after a few days as I basically just looked at the walls initially and wondered how it's possible to miss this. I knew I'd see it on people's faces if it had happened to them too.
Anyway, as the kids returned it passed away as I was afraid they'd fear me because there was no me really left. My old self returned. I feel infinity is very wise and listenes tp your requests and won't disable you.
People want spiritual enlightenment but they have no idea what it is. It's nothing near the idea anyone can have of it. It's just well...
And it's not practical. It's about knowing the eternal emptiness vs. taking the transient as the ultimate truth. It's also filled with real love that asks nothing for you.
@@RippleDrop. Thank you for your kind reply. I too have much trouble with motivation...... I am achieving More success through videos on Frederick Nietzsche, there's a good Irish philosopher out there named Uber boyo, good storyteller.....
The world is very strange. I am thoroughly convinced that it really is Maya. From a theological point of view as well as a material point of view according to physics.
I can meditate and experienced myself as the root and ground of being, the godhead the Divine or what have you.
But while I'm alive playing this role I would certainly like to be different than I am, more motivated, more wealthy, more intelligent, and more healthy.
Frederick Nietzsche is a good antidote to this demotivation for me,
And I think his philosophy is somehow equally as true as advaita vedanta.
Basically it's that religion is for the weak.
And that one should embrace suffering as a path to beauty, of the intellect spirit and body.
Which is the pathway of the strong.
The pathway of the week according to Frederick, is to pacify one's Will to power, potential greatness, and will to succeed with fanciful religious notions which in the end just excuse failure.
I'm not very good at explaining these things but it certainly is helping me.
Tell me what part of The Vedas talk about this sort of trap?
Thank you sir.
O God! You are the Most Great!
There is one goal and one goal alone, and that is to experience and realize God, which I have done, easily lol. And I have just begun.
Your don't need to do anything, except realize God, your worldly goals are pointless and boring.
Now, that you know your entire worldly life and existence is pointless, take to your sense and realize the One Who created you (all praise and glory belongs to God) and Who you shall return to.
Drop your world, this entire world and everything in it, don't know it will all perish, and to your God you will return?
There is no god or deity or divinity but God, Exalted and Glorified is He, none has the right to be worshipped except God.
Your world will perish. The spiritual world is the Real and True World, and everything in it, like those fuckings baby boys demons I have been destroying for like forever, and indeed, the mighty spirits, and the immortal soul, and lastly and first, la illaha ila Allah, God, the Glorious, Who you shall certainly meet when your body and your little physical world is certainly killed.
So, know that you know this, take to your sense.
The Spiritual realm, the soul, God, I put my time to it, because that alone is Real and True, while the physical world and the body is nothing and again nothing and again nothing.
Now that you know this, take to your sense.
The Spider.
i think uhmmm… like… uhmmm
🎉 Yep.
Her world is getting stop now 🫢
Sometimes we just need to stay silence, rather than talking, thinking, talking, thinking...
Period ❤
But what is prompting the lady to awake and for what purpose. What is that Being, quote; " in the back ground". It would have to be a Physical source. This has not been explained by the so called Teacher.
I mean the lady asked, quote: " how can I make sure it doesn't go", that means something within the lady wants to be connected with the lady's physical brain finally and the physical brain has just been enlightened finally by the physical source within that was FORMED initially at it's inception at an epoch.
So what is that Being within in physical terms because it would have to be a physical source within that is doing the prompting for it's survival and the evolving of it's host the intelligent species physical body and brain.
Here is your answer/explanation without going into detail.
You your beginning of your lineage was initially FORMED physically, not BORN. Only your physical body and brain was Born. That should be your awakening and knowing that your Being , your real PRESENCE, your " I am" is not going anywhere.
On reflection, what ‘prompted’ this awakening or whatever it’s called… was the dropping of the self… I totally surrendered. I didn’t want to suffer anymore (mentally/emotionally). I’d had enough of trying to keep my ‘self’ going. Everything was collapsing in my life… again… and I just cried out to God or the Universe or whatever it was that put me here and I just let go of holding it all together, of trying to maintain my self image. Anything that I would previously have been offended by or taken personally I actually started finding quite funny… why on earth could whatever anyone says to me offend me? How can you offend something that doesn’t really exist? I began realising that my ‘self’ is just an image that I’ve created in my mind… it’s only the image that gets hurt. But I created that image in the first place, that’s what is so funny - I’m the one hurting myself. No one can actually hurt me. (I’m talking about mental suffering not physical suffering). When you die to your self - let go of the image you have - the one you’ve been protecting and maintaining all the time - then you’re completely free. No one can ever hurt you again. It was always you hurting yourself anyway. No one did it to you. It’s the most wonderful thing to let go. Then, the Being that you truly are will shine forth. You still have your self image but it’s not so important to you - it’s just an act anyway. Life becomes more exciting and interesting, and less pressured. Anyway, this is my experience…. so far! 🙏
@@celia_matthews_ It sounds like you were dropping the/a Facade only and not the Self, I say that because the/one's Self can never be dropped because you/one does not have the authority nor choice to drop Self. Why!, because the Self, (which is also the/your " I am", the real PRESENCE, the Physical Source that made you into Being) initially FORMED prior to your physical BODY and BRAIN that was BORN.
Your Self Form within is your imprinted knowledge and your ITERATION FUNCTION, ( no god had a hand in that process). It's good you say, quote; " i cried out to whatever put me here", that means you dont know how your lineage initially started but the question is there arising which means the SELF within is trying to enlighten you of it's PRESENCE within. This is why I say one/you cannot let go of SELF.
Self, the object of introspection.
Object = a material thing that can be seen or touched( ie your physical FORM within), and Introspective=the examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional processes ( ie your FORM imprinted knowledge informing/prompting you your physical brain).
Your SELF ie your physical FORM that initially FORMED your lineage was Formed perfect ( because if it wasn't formed perfect initially, it would not form in the first place) and is not subject to mental nor emotional pain. So someone can offend you because your SELF really exists within but that FORM within is and was made Perfect and is not affected by offensiveness. Your Form ( ie self) is not an image, it is a physical object. You would be only hurting yourself according to your physical brain but not according to your physical FORM within. That is why there is pain, pain from brain not pain from the Form ( self) within.
Your Form ( self) imprinted knowledge is doing your prompting to your physical brain and relaying that to your mind tool to let go of external beliefs and created image's of supposedly the norm. That means you didn't let go nor die of SELF, thats impossible, Self just retreated because it has done its job by relieving what you called pain. Then naturally your Being that was BORN is back into the land of Living and enjoying life.
So really you have been enlightened by your physical source within of it's presence whether you know it or not, you must been because you have come to your realisation.
I am not going to go into how your FORM ( ie self)was initially FORMED, that would be to much, but I will say, Elements can fuse, biology cannot but they have a symbiotic relationship. Welcome to the Universe that is in your human molecules not your DNA.
@@chiptowers1yes, I think we just have different definitions of the terms. 😊
@@celia_matthews_ there can only be one exact definition. One is either a follower or not. One either learns information from books or spoken words and parrots that, or, one receives their information direct from their imprinted knowledge.
So who am I talking to, is it your imprinted knowledge. If not, then I would like to talk with your imprinted knowledge ie if you have been enlightened by it yet.
I do know that your physical source Presence within is trying to enlighten your physical brain because you said it and not even realise it, ie quote; " and I just cried out to god or the Universe OR WHATEVER IT WAS THAT PUT ME HERE", there it is right there, your PRESENCE FORM that put you here is trying to enlighten you with it's imprinted knowledge. You just don't know what it is but you are getting close and not even realise it. You are getting close to BEING yourself. All the best to ya.
@@chiptowers1thank you - I never looked at it like that!
Simply rubbish, Awakening is not that boring, you are talking about peace, Real awakening is to know God💗, our source , our creator, the mother, within our heart.
🎉 What she's experiencing now,
is simply just "stopping the world", as the legendary Carlos Castaneda put it.
"Oh, my mind just stopped for a moment... No more thoughts, no more confusion..." - and when this silence ceased, then...
Everything just starts all over again 🫢
Rupert Im in a time in my life so difficult and you give me peace
Since Im very young I felt Im different
I felt my awiernnes always
Since Im a little girl I felt I dont belong to this body
Thanks for beeing
Thanks for show me I was always right❤
You can actually let go by looking forward without projecting what it will be like as you would in a mystery. The Buddha stays present to let go because he's trying to escape what he believes is a vicious cycle in time.