Being Is Self-Evident and Obvious

"I had a realisation that even experiencing objects as being is being itself. Is that an example of being knowing being through the finite mind? Rupert says: ‘You’re overthinking this. Can you say from your experience now “I am”? Yes. To what experience do you refer that enables you to say so? When I ask you this, you pause. Where do you go in that pause? You don’t go to sensations, thoughts or memories. You go to the self-evident experience of being. That’s it. The experience of being is so self-evident and obvious that we look too far ahead. We overthink what this extraordinary thing the enlightened sages talk of is. It’s the most simple, obvious and intimate experience. It’s so simple, obvious and intimate you can’t experience it in subject-object relationship, and therefore you think you’re not experiencing it. You’re expecting some marvellous experience. It’s not – it’s just the self-evident experience: “I am.”’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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