Struggling During Retreat from the media Our Highest Purpose
A man who is struggling during the retreat and finds the meditations difficult, asks about self-enquiry and how to embody this. Rupert suggests he needs to understand who he is before embodiment and guides him in self-enquiry.
- Duration: 14 minutes and 26 seconds
- Recorded on: Aug 11, 2020
- Event: Seven Day 'Retreat at Home' – August
There is an understanding that awareness has no edge, but still no feeling that I am this space of awareness, primarily due to a remaining sense of lack. Should I focus on the awareness or the sense of lack? Rupert leads the questioner in self-enquiry.
A man who has recently delved deeply into the non-dual teaching, says he notices he gets caught up in subtly trying to be the open presence of awareness instead of simply abiding as awareness. Rupert encourages him to notice he already effortlessly is, the open presences of awareness.
A woman shares that when she is in deep meditation she reaches a place a timeless place without thoughts or feelings. She asks if she is experiencing Samadhi. Rupert cautions preferencing resting as pure awareness over experience.
A woman asks how she can feel that she is everyone and everyone is within her. Rupert suggests she consider instead that everyone and everything derives their being from the same shared consciousness.
A man says he has come to realise that not everyone is going to love him. But when grounded in the love of his being, he can relate to others from that love regardless of how they do or don't love.
A man who used to feel he was a loving person says he remains hypervigilant about this tendency, assuming that others will not return that love. Rupert speaks of an identity of being unlovable.
A woman asks a question about the 'small I' and when it begins, and how to catch it before lost in story. Rupert responds that it is no 'small I.' Awareness never really becomes a separate self.
A man who is struggling during the retreat and finds the meditations difficult, asks about self-enquiry and how to embody this. Rupert suggests he needs to understand who he is before embodiment and guides him in self-enquiry.
A woman asks for clarification in regard to the idea that awareness is not implicated in the content of experience. She asks, if we surrender all our thoughts, feelings to awareness, then isn't awareness then the basis of experience? Rupert elaborates that what is meant by the statement is that awareness is in no way affected or impacted by experience.
A healthcare worker asks about the relationship between the mind and the brain. She asks if the finite mind is located within the body. Rupert speaks about the localized aspect of infinite consciousness, appearing as the world through the agency of the finite mind.
A woman says when her mind is quiet and she is abiding as awareness she feels a sense of localization behind her eyes. Rupert assists her to experientially explore the reality of her experience.
A woman who is new to non-duality asks if the decisions making exists and if she is courageous for making certain difficult decisions. Rupert elaborates about decisions made without a decider and thoughts that arise without a thinker and encourages asking the question, on whose behalf this decisions is made, the separate self or her true nature.
There is an understanding that awareness has no edge, but still no feeling that I am this space of awareness, primarily due to a remaining sense of lack. Should I focus on the awareness or the sense of lack? Rupert leads the questioner in self-enquiry.
A man who has recently delved deeply into the non-dual teaching, says he notices he gets caught up in subtly trying to be the open presence of awareness instead of simply abiding as awareness. Rupert encourages him to notice he already effortlessly is, the open presences of awareness.
A woman shares that when she is in deep meditation she reaches a place a timeless place without thoughts or feelings. She asks if she is experiencing Samadhi. Rupert cautions preferencing resting as pure awareness over experience.
A woman asks how she can feel that she is everyone and everyone is within her. Rupert suggests she consider instead that everyone and everything derives their being from the same shared consciousness.
A man says he has come to realise that not everyone is going to love him. But when grounded in the love of his being, he can relate to others from that love regardless of how they do or don't love.
A man who used to feel he was a loving person says he remains hypervigilant about this tendency, assuming that others will not return that love. Rupert speaks of an identity of being unlovable.
A woman asks a question about the 'small I' and when it begins, and how to catch it before lost in story. Rupert responds that it is no 'small I.' Awareness never really becomes a separate self.
A man who is struggling during the retreat and finds the meditations difficult, asks about self-enquiry and how to embody this. Rupert suggests he needs to understand who he is before embodiment and guides him in self-enquiry.
A woman asks for clarification in regard to the idea that awareness is not implicated in the content of experience. She asks, if we surrender all our thoughts, feelings to awareness, then isn't awareness then the basis of experience? Rupert elaborates that what is meant by the statement is that awareness is in no way affected or impacted by experience.
A healthcare worker asks about the relationship between the mind and the brain. She asks if the finite mind is located within the body. Rupert speaks about the localized aspect of infinite consciousness, appearing as the world through the agency of the finite mind.
A woman says when her mind is quiet and she is abiding as awareness she feels a sense of localization behind her eyes. Rupert assists her to experientially explore the reality of her experience.
A woman who is new to non-duality asks if the decisions making exists and if she is courageous for making certain difficult decisions. Rupert elaborates about decisions made without a decider and thoughts that arise without a thinker and encourages asking the question, on whose behalf this decisions is made, the separate self or her true nature.