Mind, Language and Awareness

How can words and thinking assist in accessing deeper awareness when they supposedly belong to a different realm from awareness itself? Rupert says: ‘I sometimes use words in a descriptive way, and other times more evocatively – when I say something and you don’t think about it, you just go “yes” – my words take you to the experience directly. The finite mind is awareness plus the content of experience. What remains when the movie comes to an end? The screen. The screen is not an object in the movie. We use the mind to undo the mind, to investigate the mind. The mind brings itself to its own ending. But there is a gap that the mind can’t cross. In our rational culture, we can use our faculties of reason to investigate the nature of reality instead of just relying on stories and parables.’

From event 05 - 12 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 5–12 April 2025

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