The Simple Recognition of Our Self

In this meditation we are guided to shift our attention from the objects of experience to being aware or awareness itself. We see that awareness accompanies all experience, irrespective of its contents.

A man asks Rupert how to stop the identification with the seeking self who is never satisfied.

A woman asks Rupert if the knowing of his own being would be eclipsed if he were subjected to torture or other intense conditions.

A man asks if effort is necessary to establish himself as awareness.

Rupert answers a question about the stages of non-dual understanding.

A woman says she is concerned that if she delves deeply into the teaching she will use it as a spiritual bypass to withdraw from the world.

A woman asks Rupert if there is anything outside of consciousness.