Pure Being Is Awareness Knowing Itself

A woman shares that sometimes she can feel herself as unlimited awareness, but then it seems like her body-mind is different than something she experiences on the outside, like a tree. She asks Rupert to distinguish between unlimited, unlocated awareness and the body-mind. Which one is the ‘I am’? Rupert asks her if she understands that the words ‘I am’ refer to the experience of just being. Now, he continues, whatever it is that has the experience of being must know that experience. That which knows and can therefore say ‘I am’ is awareness. When we say, ‘I am’, it is not ‘I’ as a person we are referring to. It is ‘I’, awareness. He uses the metaphor of the moon in Turner’s watercolour to explain that the pure experience of being is awareness’s knowing of itself.

From event 20 April - 20 May, 2024 Seven-Day Meditation Retreat at Mandali – 20 to 27 April 2024

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