Awareness Knows Itself by Being Itself

This discussion centers around the fact that the mind can not know the ultimate reality of the universe until it first knows its own essential nature.

Rupert responds to a participant who is curious about 'being aware without the experience of objects'.

A 13-year-old boy asks if awareness has always existed. The presumption that time exists, inherent in his question, is then explored.

A 13-year-old boy's question about whether or not awareness was created leads, through investigation, to the discovery of its ever-present nature.

After an investigation of perceptions a man recognizes that awareness can experience itself during the presence as well as the absence of objects.

When a former monk expresses resistance to form arising from formlessness Rupert reminds her that the yoga meditations will cooperate with the collapse of any distinction between the two.

The value of the yoga meditations becomes apparent in this discussion about 'feeling' the body in a way that is consistent with the understanding of our true nature.

Rupert explains why the laws of physics do not need to be discarded when the true nature of experience is recognized.