The Freedom of Forgetting

"Sometimes in meditation I completely forget myself and everything disappears. Is this forgetting valuable, or should I maintain some awareness? Rupert says: ‘This forgetting is the dissolution of the separate self – it’s extremely valuable. When everything disappears, what remains is pure being without the overlay of personal identity. This isn’t unconsciousness; it’s consciousness without content. The mind interprets this as forgetting because there’s no object to remember, no separate self to do the remembering. This is actually a taste of your true nature before it’s filtered through the localised mind. Don’t try to maintain awareness of being someone; that would be preserving the very separation that meditation dissolves. Let yourself disappear completely – what remains is what you truly are.’"

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

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