Awareness Knows Itself Simply by Being Itself

A man asks Rupert about the nature of attention, mentioning that he often finds himself lost in thoughts of the future and wonders if it is the same attention that becomes aware of being. Rupert explains that attention is not the faculty with which we are aware of our being. Using the metaphor of the sun illuminating itself, he clarifies that awareness knows itself simply by being itself. He speaks of ‘knowingbeing, awarebeing, beingaware’, each in one word, as he did in his first book, The Transparency of Things, highlighting that awareness and being are one.

From event 06 - 13 October, 2024 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute – 6 to 13 October 2024

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