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Expressing This Understanding In the World

Monday 19 September 2022

The Separate Self Doesn't Actually Dissolve

A woman asks about silence and shares her prior understanding of what it was in relation to the separate self. Rupert responds that her previous understanding of silence was 'no sound' whereas what he's speaking of is the 'silence behind the silence'. The separate self doesn't really dissolve. It is like saying the snake dissolved when there was never anything there but a rope. It is a lack of clear seeing, not the dissolution of the ego or separate self.

From event 17 September - 02 October, 2022 Seven Day Retreat at The Vedanta – 17th to 24th September

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Separate self

Distress Over the Separate Self as Illusion

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Distress Over the Separate Self as Illusion

Why Is the Ego Here at All?

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Why Is the Ego Here at All?

Separate Self and Lack

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Separate Self and Lack

Attachment to Foreign Identity

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Attachment to Foreign Identity

If There Are No Others, Where Is the Conflict?

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If There Are No Others, Where Is the Conflict?

Does Knowing Include Biological Sense Perceptions?

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Does Knowing Include Biological Sense Perceptions?

Why Does the Infinite Localise into the Finite?

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Why Does the Infinite Localise into the Finite?

The Fear of the Separate Self

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The Fear of the Separate Self

Intuition and Decision-Making

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Intuition and Decision-Making

Shaking Off the Separate Self

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Shaking Off the Separate Self

Everything Is Fine

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Everything Is Fine