How to Have a Better Relationship with Family from the media Love Is the Highest Insight
A woman expresses congratulations and gratitude for Rupert and his relationship with his mother, who has recently passed. She wishes for the same relationship with her son. Her husband died awhile back, and she describes a dream where he told her to picture them as I am and as a couple together. Rupert suggests that her husband couldn't have sent a more beautiful message. And think of her son as he is now, which will help the relationship now. Look at your own being as it is to know your son in this way as he essentially is. Rupert tells a story about his relationship with his mum.
- Duration: 12 minutes and 43 seconds
- Recorded on: Oct 10, 2023
- Event: Seven Day Retreat at Garrison Institute – 8th to 15th October
A man with chronic health challenges asks if it has anything to do with having to do with having grown up in a sect. Rupert responds that if it is a sect, or a cult, where the teacher is exercising some kind of power over his students, he would suggest having nothing to do with it whatsoever. Remove yourself even from vicarious power he might hold over you.
When resting in being, it seems different from beingness, which isn't an experience. Why do we have this human experience? Rupert suggests that infinite consciousness is not just formless potential; it manifests as form, a subject, in order to have objective experience. This localising itself in the form of a finite mind creates a sacrifice of its own happiness.
A question is asked about human beings’ various manners of expression. Rupert explains that there are not different kinds of consciousness; there is only consciousness. Human beings are not conscious, only consciousness is conscious.
How is the shining of being seen, felt or known? Rupert asks if the questioner now has the experience of being. If the answer is yes, that is how it's known. Like the sun, it illuminates everything.
A woman asks about three steps of recognition. Rupert says to imagine how you would relate and act in the world if you knew that the nature of your being was peace and that you shared your being with everything. Imagine how that would affect your activities and relationships.
A woman expresses congratulations and gratitude for Rupert and his relationship with his mother, who has recently passed. She wishes for the same relationship with her son. Her husband died awhile back, and she describes a dream where he told her to picture them as I am and as a couple together. Rupert suggests that her husband couldn't have sent a more beautiful message. And think of her son as he is now, which will help the relationship now. Look at your own being as it is to know your son in this way as he essentially is. Rupert tells a story about his relationship with his mum.
A woman asks about reincarnation and how it relates to liberation. Rupert suggests that no individual self ever returned to universal awareness because it never left to begin with. When the body dies, the being doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't reincarnate because it never separated from infinite being in the first place. There is no individual to learn more in successive lifetimes. Only something that is bound needs to be liberated. See if your self is actually bound and needs to be liberated.
A question is asked about Abrahmic religion, such as Moses, because it looks like they were talking to God. Were they enlightened? Rupert references Moses statement, 'I am that I am' so he was most likely enlightened. The Ten Commandments were an elaboration of the one commandment, formulated by St. Augustine as 'Love and do whatever you love,' for the time and place in which he lived.
A woman expresses her admiration for the way Rupert has spoken of the death of his mother, which she feels is a model for all relationships and is the highest insight. She thanks him for that. Rupert returns the gratitude and lets her know that she is not alone, and that he loves her deeply.
A woman relates that most have such a different experience than Rupert's. She wonders if it is possible to find the kind of love of which he speaks. Rupert responds that his relationship, his love for his mother, was indistinguishable from the love of God. It was the same love, which is possible for anyone, even when alone.
A man asks about chronic pain and maintaining awareness beyond the subject–object perspective. Rupert suggests that as intense an experience as pain may be, see that it doesn't really affect your being. The same goes for emotion, regardless of intensity. Being is prior to, and independent of, experience.
A man with chronic health challenges asks if it has anything to do with having to do with having grown up in a sect. Rupert responds that if it is a sect, or a cult, where the teacher is exercising some kind of power over his students, he would suggest having nothing to do with it whatsoever. Remove yourself even from vicarious power he might hold over you.
When resting in being, it seems different from beingness, which isn't an experience. Why do we have this human experience? Rupert suggests that infinite consciousness is not just formless potential; it manifests as form, a subject, in order to have objective experience. This localising itself in the form of a finite mind creates a sacrifice of its own happiness.
A question is asked about human beings’ various manners of expression. Rupert explains that there are not different kinds of consciousness; there is only consciousness. Human beings are not conscious, only consciousness is conscious.
How is the shining of being seen, felt or known? Rupert asks if the questioner now has the experience of being. If the answer is yes, that is how it's known. Like the sun, it illuminates everything.
A woman asks about three steps of recognition. Rupert says to imagine how you would relate and act in the world if you knew that the nature of your being was peace and that you shared your being with everything. Imagine how that would affect your activities and relationships.
A woman expresses congratulations and gratitude for Rupert and his relationship with his mother, who has recently passed. She wishes for the same relationship with her son. Her husband died awhile back, and she describes a dream where he told her to picture them as I am and as a couple together. Rupert suggests that her husband couldn't have sent a more beautiful message. And think of her son as he is now, which will help the relationship now. Look at your own being as it is to know your son in this way as he essentially is. Rupert tells a story about his relationship with his mum.
A woman asks about reincarnation and how it relates to liberation. Rupert suggests that no individual self ever returned to universal awareness because it never left to begin with. When the body dies, the being doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't reincarnate because it never separated from infinite being in the first place. There is no individual to learn more in successive lifetimes. Only something that is bound needs to be liberated. See if your self is actually bound and needs to be liberated.
A question is asked about Abrahmic religion, such as Moses, because it looks like they were talking to God. Were they enlightened? Rupert references Moses statement, 'I am that I am' so he was most likely enlightened. The Ten Commandments were an elaboration of the one commandment, formulated by St. Augustine as 'Love and do whatever you love,' for the time and place in which he lived.
A woman expresses her admiration for the way Rupert has spoken of the death of his mother, which she feels is a model for all relationships and is the highest insight. She thanks him for that. Rupert returns the gratitude and lets her know that she is not alone, and that he loves her deeply.
A woman relates that most have such a different experience than Rupert's. She wonders if it is possible to find the kind of love of which he speaks. Rupert responds that his relationship, his love for his mother, was indistinguishable from the love of God. It was the same love, which is possible for anyone, even when alone.
A man asks about chronic pain and maintaining awareness beyond the subject–object perspective. Rupert suggests that as intense an experience as pain may be, see that it doesn't really affect your being. The same goes for emotion, regardless of intensity. Being is prior to, and independent of, experience.