The Infinite Knowing the Finite

When I rest in awareness as awareness, can I experience sensations? What’s the relationship between infinite and finite experience? Rupert says: ‘Strictly speaking, the infinite knows nothing of the finite. If something finite like a sensation were to appear within the infinite, it would displace a little bit of the infinite, and then the infinite would no longer be infinite. But if we want to come down just one step from the top of the mountain, then we can concede that the infinite can know a sensation through the faculty of a finite mind. You can still have your perceiving faculties without the belief in separation. The separate self is a belief, not an entity, a belief that the faculties of the finite mind enclose a separate independently existing self.’

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

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