Turning Our Attention Around

A man says that he longs to go back to the perfection of just being, but then he questions who or what actually has this longing? Rupert responds, using the ‘space in a room/infinite space of the universe’ analogy to demonstrate that longing to go back to being is like the space of a room wishing to be reunited with the vast physical space of the universe because it holds the belief it is not that space now. Who, then, is the self that longs to return? It is the self we believe ourself to be, this mixture of being plus the content of experience. What’s required is that we turn our attention around, not looking at our thoughts and feelings, but looking at our self, the fact of being. Then there’s this recognition, ‘I am already whole, perfect, complete, unblemished, inherently peaceful’, and so on.

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

Subscribe or purchase View event recordings