All Paths End Up in the One

A woman shares that her life has been transformed by Rupert’s teachings, allowing her to express herself in the world and improve her relationships. She describes an experience during meditation where she felt emptiness surrounded by pain and asks for guidance on the physical aspect of her suffering. Rupert acknowledges the woman’s transformation, noting it is evident to those who have known her. He says her physical pain is deeply rooted but that it may lessen over time as it becomes pervaded by the emptiness she described.

A man expresses gratitude for having attended his first retreat but says he felt baffled about the concept of God knowing only itself. He feels drawn back to his Christian roots but is torn between simply being aware, and his desire to explore devotional literature, and he wonders if he should pursue this longing. Rupert advises him to do engage in both, simply being and exploring mystical Christianity, saying they are not mutually exclusive, and he encourages the man to revisit his roots through reading Meister Eckhart and Balyani.

A man shares his ‘going-home blues’, expressing fears about his worsening eyesight, chronic pain, and feeling alone at home. He adds that he loves the friendships he felt with the people at the retreat. Rupert tells him the people here love and adore him, that he cannot possibly know the value he brings to this community. He reassures him that he’s going to be fine, that he has this loving, supportive network of friends around him.

A conversation about words and language used to express being aware and presence. A man says he likes saying ‘I am the One’ and references Jesus’s saying, ‘I am the life’. Rupert explains that ‘the One’ is what the mind calls it, but the One knows itself only as the ‘I am’. He encourages the man to stick with the phrases that are effective.

A man expresses his gratitude and recounts that he was struck during a meditation in which Rupert said, ‘we are that, but there is no “we” to be that, and there is no “that” to be that.’ He asks, in ‘I am’, what is this ‘I’ apart from the ‘am’? Rupert replies there is no ‘I’ apart from the ‘am’; only being’s knowledge of itself can be absolutely true. He explains that ‘I’ is the name that that which knows itself gives to itself.

A man shares that he is an artist returning to performance after working in abstract art, and he asks if Rupert ever felt uncertain about his own art. Rupert replies that although it appeared he stopped being an artist to become a teacher, internally it was a seamless transition. As he refined his work in his pottery studio, he reached the limits of his medium and found that new forms stopped emerging. This led to his going from being a ceramic artist to writing and speaking about non-duality.

A woman shares that her life has been transformed by Rupert’s teachings, allowing her to express herself in the world and improve her relationships. She describes an experience during meditation where she felt emptiness surrounded by pain and asks for guidance on the physical aspect of her suffering. Rupert acknowledges the woman’s transformation, noting it is evident to those who have known her. He says her physical pain is deeply rooted but that it may lessen over time as it becomes pervaded by the emptiness she described.

A man expresses gratitude for having attended his first retreat but says he felt baffled about the concept of God knowing only itself. He feels drawn back to his Christian roots but is torn between simply being aware, and his desire to explore devotional literature, and he wonders if he should pursue this longing. Rupert advises him to do engage in both, simply being and exploring mystical Christianity, saying they are not mutually exclusive, and he encourages the man to revisit his roots through reading Meister Eckhart and Balyani.

A man shares his ‘going-home blues’, expressing fears about his worsening eyesight, chronic pain, and feeling alone at home. He adds that he loves the friendships he felt with the people at the retreat. Rupert tells him the people here love and adore him, that he cannot possibly know the value he brings to this community. He reassures him that he’s going to be fine, that he has this loving, supportive network of friends around him.

A conversation about words and language used to express being aware and presence. A man says he likes saying ‘I am the One’ and references Jesus’s saying, ‘I am the life’. Rupert explains that ‘the One’ is what the mind calls it, but the One knows itself only as the ‘I am’. He encourages the man to stick with the phrases that are effective.

A man expresses his gratitude and recounts that he was struck during a meditation in which Rupert said, ‘we are that, but there is no “we” to be that, and there is no “that” to be that.’ He asks, in ‘I am’, what is this ‘I’ apart from the ‘am’? Rupert replies there is no ‘I’ apart from the ‘am’; only being’s knowledge of itself can be absolutely true. He explains that ‘I’ is the name that that which knows itself gives to itself.

A man shares that he is an artist returning to performance after working in abstract art, and he asks if Rupert ever felt uncertain about his own art. Rupert replies that although it appeared he stopped being an artist to become a teacher, internally it was a seamless transition. As he refined his work in his pottery studio, he reached the limits of his medium and found that new forms stopped emerging. This led to his going from being a ceramic artist to writing and speaking about non-duality.