The Direct Experience that Everything Is Consciousness from the media Feelings Come and Go, Awareness Remains
A man asks about how to have the direct experience that all beings and things are pure consciousness. Rupert uses the dream analogy to explain how in the dream, the streets of Paris and its objects appear to not be conscious, but upon awakening we realize that everything was made of the dreamer’s consciousness.
- Duration: 15 minutes and 50 seconds
- Recorded on: Oct 26, 2021
- Event: Seven Day Retreat at Mercy Center, CA - October 2021
A man describes a desire to be free, which he feels in his gut. Rupert says we experience the separate self in three ways: conceptual belief in the mind; longing in the heart; or energy in the body. We can explore separation on all three levels, but the yoga meditations explore the felt sense of separation in the body.
A woman says she has experienced feelings of oneness and joy but has lost the experience of awareness. Rupert asks her if she is aware and suggests that the question brought her back to the fact of being aware, and joy is felt as an after-effect of this glimpse. Feelings come and go; awareness does not.
A man asks about sharing being with other humans. Rupert explains that love, beauty and truth are three approaches to the same reality. Through perception, we call it beauty; through feeling, we call it love, through thinking, we call it truth. Rupert guides him to the experience of limitless, knowing being, which we share.
A man asks about how to have the direct experience that all beings and things are pure consciousness. Rupert uses the dream analogy to explain how in the dream, the streets of Paris and its objects appear to not be conscious, but upon awakening we realize that everything was made of the dreamer’s consciousness.
A man shares a meditation experience and asks about unconscious habits of separateness. Rupert explains that meditation is what we are, not what we do. We can be knowingly our self in frequent moments throughout our day. We don’t have to dismantle habits; they fall away as we rest in our true nature.
A man reads a Krishna Menon passage and asks Rupert for an explanation. Rupert says that he was saying that the world, as it is normally conceived, does not exist, but he is not saying that it isn’t real, only that it is not what it appears to be. It appears to be ten thousand things; its reality is pure consciousness.
A man describes a desire to be free, which he feels in his gut. Rupert says we experience the separate self in three ways: conceptual belief in the mind; longing in the heart; or energy in the body. We can explore separation on all three levels, but the yoga meditations explore the felt sense of separation in the body.
A woman says she has experienced feelings of oneness and joy but has lost the experience of awareness. Rupert asks her if she is aware and suggests that the question brought her back to the fact of being aware, and joy is felt as an after-effect of this glimpse. Feelings come and go; awareness does not.
A man asks about sharing being with other humans. Rupert explains that love, beauty and truth are three approaches to the same reality. Through perception, we call it beauty; through feeling, we call it love, through thinking, we call it truth. Rupert guides him to the experience of limitless, knowing being, which we share.
A man asks about how to have the direct experience that all beings and things are pure consciousness. Rupert uses the dream analogy to explain how in the dream, the streets of Paris and its objects appear to not be conscious, but upon awakening we realize that everything was made of the dreamer’s consciousness.
A man shares a meditation experience and asks about unconscious habits of separateness. Rupert explains that meditation is what we are, not what we do. We can be knowingly our self in frequent moments throughout our day. We don’t have to dismantle habits; they fall away as we rest in our true nature.
A man reads a Krishna Menon passage and asks Rupert for an explanation. Rupert says that he was saying that the world, as it is normally conceived, does not exist, but he is not saying that it isn’t real, only that it is not what it appears to be. It appears to be ten thousand things; its reality is pure consciousness.