Do I Sense My Body or Rest in Being During Meditation?

Coming from a Buddhist background, I’m confused about whether I should sense my body or rest in pure being during meditation. Rupert says: ‘This is not like a mindfulness practice where you give your attention to your breath. That’s not what we’re doing here. We were feeling our self as the space of awareness. I wanted you to feel that it is your experience that the flow of sensations that constitute your experience of the body actually takes place in awareness. I wasn’t encouraging you to focus on the sensation. You are the space of awareness – be the space of awareness, and just allow this cloud called the body to come to your attention. What we were doing that morning was kind of deconstructing the felt sense of the body and gradually beginning to experience it in a new way. The body is felt as a modulation, a vibration, a ripple in the ocean of consciousness, made out of sensing. And the only stuff present in sensing is pure knowing.’

From event 30 August - 06 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025

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