Happiness and Seeking Are Incompatible

A woman wants to know if impersonal thoughts are made of the same stuff that personal thoughts are made of.

A woman who struggles with whether or not there is a doer asks where the impulse to decide comes from.

A man, who sees awareness as a mental process, is having a hard time with awareness being self-aware.

A man who experiences severe anxiety and constriction in his breathing asks Rupert for guidance.

A woman wants to know how to integrate the understanding into her life with respect to taking action.

A man wants to know if mantras and affirmations work to eradicate historical negative thought processes.

A man asks how he can remember to know himself as awareness when the retreat is over and he is back home.

A woman is curious about the nature of attention and what triggers it.

Rupert emphasises how the approach taken in the teaching differs from mindfulness.

Rupert shares how he spent his time with Francis Lucille when he was at his retreats.