Rupert Spira
A discussion proposing an experiential way to explore the nature of Consciousness.
From the weekend in Amsterdam, 13 May 2016. For access to the full recording follow this link: http://non-duality.rupertspira.com/watch/the-highest-endeavour-for-the-mind
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I finally got it 😂❤️ Thanks Rupert 😊
Every time I wake up from sleep – is experiencing appearing of awareness – out of nowhere?
Consciousness is seen as everything including you and me and exists without everything including you and me just as clay is seen as all pots and exists without them.
It’s as probable that my personal consciousness will survive the death of the material body that I inhabit, as it will be that the personal consciousness of an alligator will survive the death of the material body that he or she inhabits.
His teaching are so precious but I always have to put these talks in 1.2 speed . God give me patience !
Maybe our material existence and the painful things, we can encounter, the suffering would be less painful and maybe we would not be in a position to attract pain? If we were continually in touch, at peace with the eternal world.
It's good
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This is the best……my deepest gratitude 💐🙏
There is value in having to pay full attention in a silent room in order to hear Rupert. On the other hand if recordings of his teachings were at a higher decibel level, I could move about and still hear him.
I've said this at 59..still feel Inside that I'm childlike at times but also wiser like a twenty something young adult. Hope that makes sense..lol
Wow
The mind is a collection of thoughts. Awareness has NO thoughts. Thoughts that play in our heads is a movie. Our minds jump from thought to thought and its NOT who we are. When the movie of thoughts get turned off we see the white screen and the white screen becomes Pure Awareness. Nothing added and Nothing taken away. We are born with Pure Awareness!!! There is NO belief system with
Pure Awareness!!!
This man has absolutely rocked my world !!
Is "what can you NOT be aware of?" a good question to explore the infinite nature of I,Awareness?
Presence is fresh and new always
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Spira is the most eloquent teacher i encountered. To explain in this way something that is so difficult to describe with words is simply remarkable and it brings the spiritual teaching a few steps closer to the western audience. Thanks.
I think I'm having a bit of an ah-ha moment here at I think 10:20 in the video when Rupert asks if anyone has ever experienced anything outside consciousness and I had been wondering, well, wouldn't the dark room next door in which I've never gone count as outside my consciousness? Yes, but I haven't experienced that room. I think that's my breakthrough here. What about that room? Well, who knows. I'm not responsible for being aware of it if I've never been in it. The burden of proof is on the materialists. Who says there's even a room? Just because it's implied, who's to say it's not an implication of consciousness. The materialists are the ones who believe–with a religious fervour, frankly–that there are all these rooms in the complex (!) that are made of matter and are just waiting for us willing little materialists to go exploring. I'm not prejudiced against matter per se–some of my best friends are made of matter–but as far as I know matter is no more than an experience inside my awareness. Also, I love Rupert's oft-repeated question: have you ever experienced your non-existence? And no offence to Jehovah, fact is in my consciousness I have no more beginning nor end than the Big J Himself. Whoah. I'd like to pass the buck back upstairs, but it looks like after all there's no one more responsible for the world than this consciousness of, well, of mine. To be honest, Rupert is like the dark room. I hadn't heard of him until a fortnight ago. He's so good, however, that if he didn't exist, I'd have to invent him. Heh heh and also not heh heh.
Awareness of one's self validates the entanglement of energy particles between our consciousness and the outer universe.
All that you have to do to explore the nature of consciousness is to look at it through an electronic microscope.
Question 1: Awareness, what is your experience of yourself?
Question 2: Awareness, do you ever experience yourself appearing or disappearing?
Question 3: Awareness, do you ever experience a limit in yourself? Do you have an edge of boundary?
Question 4: Awareness, do you ever come into contact with anything outside of yourself?
Question 5: Awareness, have you ever aged?
Consciousness is associated with “Thinking” and is independent of “Thinking”.
This thought is understood only by Consciousness.
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I'm so relieved that we're here to figure this stuff out. Imagine if there wasn't a puzzle and we're just put here to eat and sleep and pass life onto the next one..
…..Why not just cut to the chase and acknowledge our loving Creator, God…?
Speechless. So, so thankful for your existence Rupert, dont have enough words to express how thankful I am! Your knowledge, your humbleness is priceless. Thank you Universe for such of Gift, Rupert!!
Possibly of interest to some
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Dropping-Out-the-Backdoor-by-Daniel-Geery-Biology_Conflict_Consciousness_Eternity-190418-424.html
Well, Awareness cannot logically experience its own disappearance, because experience implies awareness.
Much love to spira
even my thoughts about self-inquiry are not my own. they too just appear. it seems the only attribute i have is being aware
I am consciousness and can never be anything other than consciousness. Truly amazing. I finally feel it and the funny thing is I was always that, I always felt myself. I will never die. I have no opposite. How can I be something other than consciousness?
But what about lets say a computer. The computer runs and I shut him off (like a human going to deep sleep). After some time I turn the machine on again. The computer doesnt know anything about that time in between. He could not collect data. For him its like when humans wake up after annesthesia. They were not aware because they were shut down.
But what if I completely destroy the computer. Its again like shutting him down. He cant collect any data. He is not aware. But now he will never be aware again. The computer is completely gone. Destroyed.
I dont understand how it should be different for humans.
After my body is dead i will not be aware like in deep sleep but how can I ever be aware of something again now that I am no more?
I am annihalated…
Maybe its true that you reincarnate in another body again.
Then "you" will be aware again till the next death. It would be an endless chain of experiencing life because you are not aware in the time from death till birth. That time in between doesnt exist for one self.
But why should it then on the other hand be good to break through that endless cycle of life. If I cant experience something any more, be aware of something or just be.
If i wont be reborn i wont be aware any more. So I am truly dead. Dead like in a materialistic kind of philosophy.
Does anyone have a good answer?
An answer from own experience?
Sorry for the bad english.
This man is AMAZING!… thank you so much for this great guidance Rupert!
There is no story of consciousness because the true nature of consciousness is impersonal. All stories are personal and are about the drama of a person living a life in the world. That world is no more real than a virtual reality and the person is no more real than a character in the virtual reality. The true impersonal nature of consciousness is only watching events unfold in that virtual reality, like an observer in a movie audience that is only watching events unfold in the movie. The observer of the movie is always outside the movie and is only watching as the story of the person unfolds. Consciousness only appears to have a personal story if it believes itself to be a person in the world that it perceives. All personal self-concepts are delusional beliefs that consciousness falsely believes about itself.
The true story of consciousness is no story.
See the Science and Nonduality WordPress website:
https://scienceandnonduality.wordpress.com/2020/02/16/the-story-of-consciousness/
Why is his voice so soothing?
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