Peace Is Independent of Experience
- Duration: Video: 1 hour, 51 minutes, and 28 seconds / Audio: 1 hour, 51 minutes, and 28 seconds
- Recorded on: Mar 27, 2020
- Event: Seven Day 'Retreat at Home'
In this meditation we contemplate that the peace and the joy for which all people long above all else is the very nature of ourself. It is prior to and independent of the content of experience. It does not need to be created or manufactured. It simply needs to be recognised.
A woman asks, 'Who is sensitive?' and if sensitivity is a quality of the finite mind. Rupert distinguishes two types of sensitivity, the sensitivity of consciousness and the sensitivity of the ego.
A father says he understands there is no effort necessary to know our true nature but notices at times it seems to take effort to remember himself, especially with regard to parenting. He asks Rupert to comment.
A man asks for guidance on how to take the understanding he has gained during meditation into his daily life.
A man asks, 'Who is the one who makes decisions?'
A man who has experienced his true nature as effortless consciousness sees he has been conditioned to believe that spiritual practice requires intense discipline. He asks Rupert for guidance.
A woman asks if she needs to be a hundred per cent established in her true nature to teach non-dual meditation.
A woman says she has difficulty concentrating during meditation and asks for guidance with staying on track.
A woman says at times she feels causeless happiness but other times senses a blockage within her that gets in the way. Rupert comments.
In this meditation we contemplate that the peace and the joy for which all people long above all else is the very nature of ourself. It is prior to and independent of the content of experience. It does not need to be created or manufactured. It simply needs to be recognised.
A woman asks, 'Who is sensitive?' and if sensitivity is a quality of the finite mind. Rupert distinguishes two types of sensitivity, the sensitivity of consciousness and the sensitivity of the ego.
A father says he understands there is no effort necessary to know our true nature but notices at times it seems to take effort to remember himself, especially with regard to parenting. He asks Rupert to comment.
A man asks for guidance on how to take the understanding he has gained during meditation into his daily life.
A man asks, 'Who is the one who makes decisions?'
A man who has experienced his true nature as effortless consciousness sees he has been conditioned to believe that spiritual practice requires intense discipline. He asks Rupert for guidance.
A woman asks if she needs to be a hundred per cent established in her true nature to teach non-dual meditation.
A woman says she has difficulty concentrating during meditation and asks for guidance with staying on track.
A woman says at times she feels causeless happiness but other times senses a blockage within her that gets in the way. Rupert comments.