Find out the Nature of 'I'

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9 жыл бұрын

A conversation exploring whether the 'I' of Awareness is really obscured by feelings and beliefs.
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Пікірлер: 91

@moonglow6639 3 жыл бұрын

"It is the person you imagine yourself to be that suffers, not you." (Nisargadatta Maharaj)

@drrameshkarur-8363 Жыл бұрын

You melt me into Oneness so easily and effortlessly dear Rupert! I m optimistic that in the near future more and more people will get awakened and get a permanent release from all bloody dividing idiotic forces and live a better and peaceful lives!!Thank you Rupert for enlightening people worldwide!❤

@Kroaky108 6 жыл бұрын

I was always asking questions like this to myself at school, while gazing out the window, I always got told off for it!

@mejohn101 2 жыл бұрын

Wait, Who was told off?

@KBWitt 2 жыл бұрын

@@mejohn101 XD

@Joethebro101 9 жыл бұрын

Possibly the best video on KZfaq

@TheBrakedown 2 жыл бұрын

Rupert is the best I’ve ever heard on the subject

@yvettetorres7829 4 жыл бұрын

This pervasive AWARENESS that we all share it isccommonly understood to religious people or non secular people as SPIRIT. But people think of Spirit and Self as being separate. It is mindblowing when you realize that what we are is this Awareness that pervades every single experience, object, sensation, thought, feelings, emotions. I started by closing my eyes and going inward with Rupert's Meditation on Self abidance. It was extraordinary.

@patriciacashman5553 9 жыл бұрын

From my heart, I thank you for this clip. Perfect timing. Beautiful.

@serenity963 3 жыл бұрын

Such a good one. Saved, will visit, and revisit, again, and again... So glad to have found Rupert.

@nocosa Жыл бұрын

When Jesus said I am the life and the truth. He was referring to this I AM yet people often think he was referring to the person.

@nimim.markomikkila1673 9 жыл бұрын

I am aware of having the thought: "This is so good", and feeling good at the same time. This is better than "Look ma, no hands!":D

@gregjustsitting 7 жыл бұрын

"When I look for the I, I can't find it" When looking for the "I" as long as I think the "I" is a thing I can't find it. The question changes to "Why can't I find the I?" No trailing vines here, nothing to grab on to. Awareness when sifted through, I cant find any qualities to it. It doesn't have size, time limits, means I doesn't exist in time or space. Is it beyond time and space? It doesn't have thinghood. I is not an ego, it is what is left when ego is eliminated. Thanks all for the pointers

@carlosbarroso5381 3 жыл бұрын

You cant find the "I" because the thinker is not separated from thoughts.The I is the thoughts too.Once you realize that(by direct perception) fact everything falls into place.

@subarnasubedi7938 3 жыл бұрын

@@carlosbarroso5381 Did you listen to JK?

@carlosbarroso5381 3 жыл бұрын

@@subarnasubedi7938 Yes I did.

@randomtalks2489 3 жыл бұрын

Whatever you people are talking is useless...only mere repeatation of word without experiencing it...

@sacragon Жыл бұрын

@@carlosbarroso5381 A further step - the thinker does not exist, there is only thought.

@dr.rajendrasabadra7636 2 жыл бұрын

Listening Rupert makes me much more relaxed, satisfied, simple, effortless..... Thank you, thank you, thank you. For such a nicely explained everything.

@38vausa 4 жыл бұрын

The Buddha nature = Awareness = Self knowing = 24/7 light = Love ❤️

@iawake419 9 жыл бұрын

Wow. Beautiful. Thank you Rupert for sharing your brilliant grasp of what is available to each of us. I am truly grateful.

@KowdleBala 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rupert.Such simplcity!!

@nkastropil 5 жыл бұрын

This one in particular resonates with me. Love it!

@annamariapaola1 9 жыл бұрын

Great Q & A . Thank you.

@gireeshneroth7127 3 жыл бұрын

When your true self breaks through the mind wrap the I dissolves into consciousness. And you realize that I'm not me but consciousness in a pretentious posture. There's nothing about me and what I experience except and that of pure consciousness.

@bradstephan7886 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@leelanjoy 5 жыл бұрын

GREAT ! THANK YOU RUPERT !

@michaelmcclure3383 4 жыл бұрын

Oddly I spontaneously became aware as a 4 year old child that whenever I am, everything appears . I dont know if it was that friend of my family. The Ukrainian bohemian arist who studied film under Eisenstein. Or what. But it was in the back garden looking after a garden of flowers she got me to plant and it just suddenly dawned. Obviously It wasn't complete because the nature of that awareness wasnt clear yet but I never forgot it. So as soon as I encountered in my reading Jean Klien and the classic advaita texts in my early 20s I was hooked.. Haha I had the 'genuine understanding" in 96. Then a few years later went through a death like terror and realized the deathless nature of consciousness. Yet still a few residual vasanas remained.. not enough to prevent realization of course.. but still enough to prevent the full fruit of natural joy from being more or less constant.

@dariodrz 4 жыл бұрын

I love you Rupert, nothing else to say

@luis55ful 9 жыл бұрын

Great, so clear, the best of all.

@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting!!! There must be a physical reality that these beliefs can be based upon.

@saidas108 9 жыл бұрын

Why must there be?

@oneofthepeoplehere 9 жыл бұрын

Where is the physical reality of the experience of "red"? The quale of visual perception? An energy wave of a particular set of qualities is radiating through space. The wave interacts with certain physical materials, chemical reactions take place. Where in this physical model can you point out or demonstrate that the experience of "the color red" occurred? So far there has not been, to my knowledge, a known particle or any physical substance created when a mind creates an interpretation of outside "information" i.e. physical interactions which happen to create sensation.

@josephmitchell6796 Жыл бұрын

I need to listen to this every day

@highvibefreqzshow5967 2 жыл бұрын

In my direct experience asking random people if they are aware almost always provokes them to ask a question in response to having asked them are you aware, "Am I aware of what?" Not a single one of them, and I have asked several at that, has ever simply answered, "Yes. I'm aware." 🤣🤣🤣

@highvibefreqzshow5967 2 жыл бұрын

They think it has something to do with being aware of something objective but their answering "Am I aware of what" pretty much is all you need to know as they are only externalizing awareness attributing it to having something to do with objects.

@dr.susheelkhemariya8966 3 жыл бұрын

Bahut.bahut.gretitude.bahut.bahut.dhanyabad.thanks.

@elainereader9247 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Thank you! So very much! ❤️

@jorgelinastrada2227 9 жыл бұрын

Me encanta Rupert es muy claro! Pero no hablo inglés y en el canal de español hace mucho que no suben vídeos:’-(

@Walizen Жыл бұрын

Come on..this is so pure so clean ..so generous even the shortcut gets a shortcut..

@sharonwhittle2437 4 жыл бұрын

So good!!!

@jaminelee4469 Жыл бұрын

A verdade que liberta!!!

@thetranquilview5600 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou brilliant love it 🙏

@ScottHaley12 3 жыл бұрын

Quite brilliant. This is exactly what humanity lacks most of the time, and it's right there... in all of us. I call Separateness the Grand Illusion - the imagination, the "dream", or something similar - of That Which Is. The purpose of it is so That Which Is can experience everything: the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, & everything in between. Such a thing can't be done unless That Which Is temporarily forgets who/what It is. Ultimately, there's only One thing that exists: Cosmic Consciousness, or That Which Is, or whatever name you wish to assign It. The name is not important. So, do the Cosmic Dance (meaning Be-In-the Present, Now-ever), and be Aware. Happy Trails

@dr.rajendrasabadra7636 2 жыл бұрын

Can rupert 's talks could be heard in all other languages. Request you.

@dr.susheelkhemariya8966 3 жыл бұрын

Thanksgretitude DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad Rpertspira thanks

@rinarina5799 4 жыл бұрын

Love love love

@hereandnow5235 4 жыл бұрын

It has nothing to do with romaces or fairy tales

@DLBurggraf 9 жыл бұрын

I Am is a conduit to the Self no thought can exist without Me.

@saidas108 9 жыл бұрын

How is the I AM different from the Self? The I AM refers to Awareness/Self.

@DualBoyy 5 жыл бұрын

@@saidas108 I am is just a reflection of the self. The self itself is not even the "I" which is only also a certain idea within the self.

@MarcosBetancort 4 жыл бұрын

@@DualBoyy wait a minute is that what Rupert is teaching? If so, then is not improper to say that we are awareness? As there is no I-thought in being awareness. It must be wrong to say that I am awareness. It makes more sense to say that I am a reflection or idea of awareness. And being aware or when I am aware is not that I am awareness, but is the experience of awareness located. Without location I wouldn't be aware.

@hereandnow5235 4 жыл бұрын

@@MarcosBetancort yes, it confuses when he says I I I I I, they get mixed up in my general stait

@styleodaoutof4995 Жыл бұрын

Mind blowing 🤯🤯🤯

@markrothery8719 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been trying to question the qualities of awareness but all I seem to find is awareness! Unseen, unmoving, constant, no substance. Kinda empty but theoretically I know everything within it. Can anyone elaborate how I can escalate my enquiry please? Would be much appreciated x

@StephenGrew 3 жыл бұрын

Yes at it's peril 😊

@claudedupont7432 Жыл бұрын

Most of the time awareness is there,or easy to recognize maybe except in deep sleep,this ring a bell in my case,everything must pass but awareness remain?!?

@sunilraphael7551 4 жыл бұрын

🦋

@virendrasolanki6264 4 жыл бұрын

Who says " I am aware" ? Whose sound it is ? Is awareness speaking? If so , Can awareness speak ? Or is this sound of mind?

@musicisthelanguageofthecos8266 3 жыл бұрын

Awareness is aware of itself(11;07) ...all the rest you have written are the mind's attempt to prevent you from knowing that you are not a cluster of thoughs,sensations,perceptions etc but pure awareness

@peopleunite3605 9 жыл бұрын

Is it not I, the same I that is angry, lonely, etc, I is the central character in the drama of feelings. Find the nature of I. Follow it through to your experience.

@charlesgodwin2191 3 жыл бұрын

I am that which is that is experiencing being consciously aware of experiencing being consciously aware that I am that which is.....

@JeremiahKlarman 2 жыл бұрын

I tried to inquire and am now experiencing extreme depersonalization.

@ullasullasullas6609 Жыл бұрын

What about not knowing, I do not need to now is the present moment

@alphagirl9130 3 жыл бұрын

If this consciousness of I Am is eternal, how come it becomes weaker sometimes (e.g. feeling sleepy) and stronger while you are fully awake?

@RA-ih1zx 3 жыл бұрын

Is that sickness or sleepyness something that modifies or awareness or is it just another that you are aware of?

@RA-ih1zx 3 жыл бұрын

*your awareness

@philkelly8097 3 жыл бұрын

It is the Mind that becomes those states Consciousness never changes

@eusuntaceleusunt 9 жыл бұрын

:) I love you

@MUSICOBLISS 9 жыл бұрын

Never say anything unless it says it better than silence

@DualBoyy 5 жыл бұрын

silence and words are both entangled in this beautiful dance. The truth lays between the two.

@maheshn9970 3 жыл бұрын

'I am aware' could just be a function of the mind/brain.

@musicisthelanguageofthecos8266 3 жыл бұрын

This exact thought you have just written is another mind's trick and not awareness which is aware of it !

@dorianshaffer7120 3 жыл бұрын

How does one confirm this, I mean it can very well be the mind

@christopherclewlow6634 2 жыл бұрын

Obviously

@justaman3333 3 ай бұрын

When i looked for you, I found me. When I looked for me, I found you.

@Gloriousnfree 6 жыл бұрын

My mind was just nirvana'd...

@fuldagermany 9 жыл бұрын

I just cannot help myself today, as it is a new year, 2015, may the force be with you ... and it is. I would guess that Life itself is that which is being called Awareness ... out of which all arises. It is never changing in and of itself ... only the play that is observed changes. Have I got it yet???? The space wherein all things take place ... it is the oneness of us all, is it not?

@oneofthepeoplehere 9 жыл бұрын

You don't need the part about Life. Just as a blind person "has" undiminished awareness despite not having sight, a stone "has" awareness despite not being "alive" and having animal senses. Now substitute "has" for "is". Unless you meant "Existence" for "Life". I suppose then I didn't need to reply.

@fuldagermany 9 жыл бұрын

oneofthepeoplehere Life and existence are synonymous to me. Thank you for a very good response. I love your name tag ... it is just so perfect.

@saidas108 9 жыл бұрын

Minahh Hiya kid! Happy New Year. My two cents is when discussing this is that it has to be made clear how one is defining and understanding "life". Eternal life is quite different than a life sentence. :)

@robinaguenkel7534 Жыл бұрын

👍🇩🇪

@markie9739 4 жыл бұрын

"When all seven billion of us are asked the question am I aware?" the vast majority of the seven billion of us will refer to the sense of "I" that is coming from the mind, that it is aware. Unfortunatelly, you still haven´t convinced me, Rupert. I wonder if I´d rather focus only on the later videos as Rupert might have found better ways of explaining in the meantime. Neverthelles, thank you for all your work.

@Mat-cm6he 2 жыл бұрын

and who's the "me" that is supposed to convince?

@markie9739 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mat-cm6he sure :-)

@dommccaffry3802 4 жыл бұрын

So, this self that on examination doesn't exist ?? So, our beloved families, friends, creatures , loving experiences , whatever , is all just nonsense and illusion ????????????