Distinguishing Physical Pain from Psychological Suffering from the media The Ultimate Yoga
A woman asks about physical pain and its relationship to suffering. Rupert distinguishes between physical pain, which is an intelligent response from the body, and psychological suffering caused by a belief in separation.
- Duration: 8 minutes and 20 seconds
- Recorded on: Jun 23, 2020
- Event: Seven Day 'Retreat at Home' – June
A woman asks why Rupert's yoga meditations are called this, given that they don't include physical movements or postures. Rupert speaks about the origin and evolution of his yoga meditations.
A woman asks how she can continue practicing yoga meditations after the retreat, how often she should do them and which ones Rupert would recommend for a new practitioner.
A man says he is able to watch feelings, thoughts and sensations from the position of awareness. He asks if he is 'doing it right' and where he should go next. Rupert discusses being the knower of experience and uses an analogy of a self-aware movie screen.
A woman says she feels Kundalini energy rising during meditation that has left her feeling shaky. She asks how she can build a more harmonious relationship with these energies which she feels distract her from abiding as her true nature. Rupert speaks about the realignment of the body after the recognition of our true nature.
A woman who is new to the Direct Path worries she isn't doing the practice right. Rupert guides her to ask, 'Who is the one who is not doing it right?'
A woman who is new to practising yoga meditations asks how to cooperate with the dissolution of old, conditioned patterns in the body and mind.
A singer with a background in A Course in Miracles asks if awareness is synonymous with God and if, from the non-dual perspective, she is identical to God.
Rupert helps a man to see that without reference to thought or memory, the raw experience of the body is pure sensation, suspended in open awareness.
A woman asks about physical pain and its relationship to suffering. Rupert distinguishes between physical pain, which is an intelligent response from the body, and psychological suffering caused by a belief in separation.
A woman asks if yoga meditations could help resolve her stomach problems, which she believes are related to chronic restlessness with emotional origins.
A woman asks Rupert for a non-dual approach to managing the persistent negative thoughts she experiences during meditation.
A woman says that at times she feels bombarded by sensations and perceptions. She asks how to rest knowingly as the presence of awareness when she feels overwhelmed by experience.
A woman comments that during the morning's meditation her sense of abiding as awareness was broken by the sound of trucks passing outside her window. She asks how to manage resistance that arises while she is trying to abide in her true nature.
A woman shares an experience of having no identity and being only awareness. She describes feeling no motivation while in that place and asks about the relationship between personal identity, motivation and abiding as infinite consciousness.
A woman asks why Rupert's yoga meditations are called this, given that they don't include physical movements or postures. Rupert speaks about the origin and evolution of his yoga meditations.
A woman asks how she can continue practicing yoga meditations after the retreat, how often she should do them and which ones Rupert would recommend for a new practitioner.
A man says he is able to watch feelings, thoughts and sensations from the position of awareness. He asks if he is 'doing it right' and where he should go next. Rupert discusses being the knower of experience and uses an analogy of a self-aware movie screen.
A woman says she feels Kundalini energy rising during meditation that has left her feeling shaky. She asks how she can build a more harmonious relationship with these energies which she feels distract her from abiding as her true nature. Rupert speaks about the realignment of the body after the recognition of our true nature.
A woman who is new to the Direct Path worries she isn't doing the practice right. Rupert guides her to ask, 'Who is the one who is not doing it right?'
A woman who is new to practising yoga meditations asks how to cooperate with the dissolution of old, conditioned patterns in the body and mind.
A singer with a background in A Course in Miracles asks if awareness is synonymous with God and if, from the non-dual perspective, she is identical to God.
Rupert helps a man to see that without reference to thought or memory, the raw experience of the body is pure sensation, suspended in open awareness.
A woman asks about physical pain and its relationship to suffering. Rupert distinguishes between physical pain, which is an intelligent response from the body, and psychological suffering caused by a belief in separation.
A woman asks if yoga meditations could help resolve her stomach problems, which she believes are related to chronic restlessness with emotional origins.
A woman asks Rupert for a non-dual approach to managing the persistent negative thoughts she experiences during meditation.
A woman says that at times she feels bombarded by sensations and perceptions. She asks how to rest knowingly as the presence of awareness when she feels overwhelmed by experience.
A woman comments that during the morning's meditation her sense of abiding as awareness was broken by the sound of trucks passing outside her window. She asks how to manage resistance that arises while she is trying to abide in her true nature.
A woman shares an experience of having no identity and being only awareness. She describes feeling no motivation while in that place and asks about the relationship between personal identity, motivation and abiding as infinite consciousness.