Who Is Searching for Happiness?

A man who wants to write a book about his childhood trauma from the perspective of love says he is suffering from chronic fatigue and so lacks the energy to write. Rupert suggests that writing could be part of the process of healing the trauma and may relieve the fatigue.

A woman asks on whose behalf effort is being made and how to feel more happiness in that effort. Rupert responds that happiness is the nature of our being and we can only make an effort for something that we do not yet have. He suggests that we ask the question, 'Who is making the effort'?

A man with longstanding sleep difficulties, says that the energy he experiences shortly after falling asleep distresses him. Rupert suggests that dream images often represent aspects of life that we are mostly unaware of that are seeking our attention.

A woman says she realised her true nature about 10 years ago after she heard the question ‘Who am I’? after going to Ramana Maharshi’s ashram. However, she feels she is still mostly her personality and asks what she should do. Rupert replies that what remains is to stabilise in her true nature such that the personality is an expression of that being.

A man describes his experience of contemplating the space where he was to the space out the window, and he had the realisation that everything comes out of nothing, which gives him a physical jolt. He asks if he should continue to explore this realisation. Rupert responds that this recognition is enough to give the body a jolt and to continue to follow where the realisation leads.

A woman asks about illness and the role of medication and healing. Rupert responds that self-enquiry is the ultimate healing. That which is thought to be physical as opposed to spiritual, such as antibiotics, is an assumed but false division when all is consciousness. He suggests that nothing is physical, not even medication or vaccines.

A man who has a debilitating illness from childhood trauma that takes 5-6 hours each day to manage, says he woke up this morning feeling that everything was luminous. Rupert suggests that it makes sense that this trauma, which has been lodged in the body, is seeking release and that yoga meditations that specifically address the release of trauma may be helpful.

A woman says that she cannot accept herself as she is and desperately seeks her true self. Rupert asks her to tell us about herself and leads her in self-enquiry to experience her true nature.

A man from Austria who says he's been working on his ego for about a year in an effort to wake up, has now shifted to removing thoughts, feelings and the content of experience. Rupert suggests that what we really are is present now, and asks him to describe that which he is without referring to memory.

A woman from Germany asks about the statement 'the search for enlightenment is a form of distraction'. Rupert responds that a search is always for something that is not present now and suggests that what is sought is what we already are.

A man from Virginia asks why the 'I' needs the separate self to recognise its true nature. Rupert suggests that the separate self is a contraction of awareness, which exerts a force that always tends towards returning to its natural state.

A man asks about a practice for being aware during the workday. Rupert suggests that we take brief, but frequent, breaks to return to awareness until there is stabilisation there.

A man would like to know how to manage the demands between spending hours in meditation and activities in the world. Rupert responds that it's possible to err on the side of discipline around what needs or doesn't need to be done, and suggests that we investigate our fear of failure.

A woman who shares her experience of thoughts and feelings coming and going, of 'me' dissolving and intense physical sensations, asks how this relates to the 'I am.' Rupert suggests we investigate the awareness in which these experiences come and go.

A woman asks what to do about uncomfortable sensations, like headaches. Rupert suggests we breathe emptiness into the discomfort.

A man who wants to write a book about his childhood trauma from the perspective of love says he is suffering from chronic fatigue and so lacks the energy to write. Rupert suggests that writing could be part of the process of healing the trauma and may relieve the fatigue.

A woman asks on whose behalf effort is being made and how to feel more happiness in that effort. Rupert responds that happiness is the nature of our being and we can only make an effort for something that we do not yet have. He suggests that we ask the question, 'Who is making the effort'?

A man with longstanding sleep difficulties, says that the energy he experiences shortly after falling asleep distresses him. Rupert suggests that dream images often represent aspects of life that we are mostly unaware of that are seeking our attention.

A woman says she realised her true nature about 10 years ago after she heard the question ‘Who am I’? after going to Ramana Maharshi’s ashram. However, she feels she is still mostly her personality and asks what she should do. Rupert replies that what remains is to stabilise in her true nature such that the personality is an expression of that being.

A man describes his experience of contemplating the space where he was to the space out the window, and he had the realisation that everything comes out of nothing, which gives him a physical jolt. He asks if he should continue to explore this realisation. Rupert responds that this recognition is enough to give the body a jolt and to continue to follow where the realisation leads.

A woman asks about illness and the role of medication and healing. Rupert responds that self-enquiry is the ultimate healing. That which is thought to be physical as opposed to spiritual, such as antibiotics, is an assumed but false division when all is consciousness. He suggests that nothing is physical, not even medication or vaccines.

A man who has a debilitating illness from childhood trauma that takes 5-6 hours each day to manage, says he woke up this morning feeling that everything was luminous. Rupert suggests that it makes sense that this trauma, which has been lodged in the body, is seeking release and that yoga meditations that specifically address the release of trauma may be helpful.

A woman says that she cannot accept herself as she is and desperately seeks her true self. Rupert asks her to tell us about herself and leads her in self-enquiry to experience her true nature.

A man from Austria who says he's been working on his ego for about a year in an effort to wake up, has now shifted to removing thoughts, feelings and the content of experience. Rupert suggests that what we really are is present now, and asks him to describe that which he is without referring to memory.

A woman from Germany asks about the statement 'the search for enlightenment is a form of distraction'. Rupert responds that a search is always for something that is not present now and suggests that what is sought is what we already are.

A man from Virginia asks why the 'I' needs the separate self to recognise its true nature. Rupert suggests that the separate self is a contraction of awareness, which exerts a force that always tends towards returning to its natural state.

A man asks about a practice for being aware during the workday. Rupert suggests that we take brief, but frequent, breaks to return to awareness until there is stabilisation there.

A man would like to know how to manage the demands between spending hours in meditation and activities in the world. Rupert responds that it's possible to err on the side of discipline around what needs or doesn't need to be done, and suggests that we investigate our fear of failure.

A woman who shares her experience of thoughts and feelings coming and going, of 'me' dissolving and intense physical sensations, asks how this relates to the 'I am.' Rupert suggests we investigate the awareness in which these experiences come and go.

A woman asks what to do about uncomfortable sensations, like headaches. Rupert suggests we breathe emptiness into the discomfort.