The Ocean of Being

Everybody loves happiness above all else, and for this reason everybody seeks happiness above all else. When we explore our experience of happiness, the first thing we notice is that the experience always takes place inside us; it is never put in from the outside. If happiness is within our self and our self is obviously always present, then why is happiness not always experienced? All that is required to recover our innate peace and happiness is to know our self as we essentially are. When we know our own essential being, we experience true peace and happiness.

A man with a whiplash injury asks for guidance on managing intense pain.

Rupert discusses the ever-present, effortless happiness of our being, because it is the nature of awareness to say 'yes' to all experience.

A conversation about investing our happiness in the future and rejecting what is arising, instead of saying 'yes' to all experience right now.

A man asks how he can become established in his true nature when his personality is distracted by what he is experiencing.

A mother feels her attachment to her adult children keeps her identified as a separate self and fears she will lose her relationship with them if she stands as awareness.