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That Is a western mindset. I've known loads of people, who have lived in a camper. Travelling and living hand to mouth. It isn't all about do do do. Work for wages is a relatively new model. Way back we worked on our own behalf, and in harmony with nature. Go to the amazon tribes. They "do" for direct payment (I.e the animal as food) and don't waste time nor energy on attaining "things" and luxurious trinkets. They are a direct doing. They also meet others as a true human. No pretense, no superficial "how are you - yes well thanks". It's shallow platitudes maily In the west. Total garbage.

He must have been interviewed by different people a hundred times with the same questions. I would have quit.

Yes, he's often impatient. I've seen him downright angry at times too. How can he yak on about peace and happiness when for him he hasn't even found them?

​​@@lucyhartman1501 right, because in the end we're all human. Humans evolved with certain emotional capabilities and yet many dysfunctions remain. Clearly there's a wide range of emotional regulation capacities across the 8B of us, and maybe diligent meditation can even improve where you stand in the distribution, but in short, everyone gets pissed. Even self-proclaimed buddhas. I remember seeing some videos of Papaji in his later years, cranky because his body was failing him. That's why it's so important to never lionize or worship meditation teachers, the good ones only remind us to look away from them and toward our own momentary experience again and again, until the core insight is so obvious it can't be overlooked. One wise teacher said "if you didn't know how to bake a souffle before awakening, you still won't after" ... which in this context means the project of being less of an a-hole is orthogonal to the project of awakwning. Gotta do em both! Then learn to bake a proper souffle

@@mountainair Yes, too much of this non-duality seems to be just an escape, or avoidance of out (very real) humanity. Papaji was beyond cranky sometimes, yelling at people etc. I (and even Ramanashram) don't find him Self realized. Anyway, I agree "awakening" isn't some magic pill. Clearly there's still plenty of crap left after it - requiring a lifetime of work. If you cast a shadow, you still got shadow.

Not really wasted I'd say - our true nature must be there all the time, never lost, as Rupert says, just overlooked.

business is and will always is parsmount, eh Rupert!

Yup! $3500 U.S. for a weeklong retreat, just to tell people there's nothing to do (except pay him!)

Let me politely tell you to listen more of Spira video just to see what you think about it afterwards if.

Advice: dont allow Rupert to tell you what happiness should be!

@@claudedupont7432 Thank you for your polite instruction. I watched the entire video before your advice and have watched other teachings from Rupert. Indeed, his teaching has been mostly a positive road to walk. Rupert appears not only to teach, he uses these occasions to refine his own understanding of his essential self, his egos need to support his own awakening of his essential self. Rupert tends to talk, over thinking his basic understanding. By and large is supported in that endeavor by his intellectual and academic students in his audiences. The screen of life is a perfect analogy for our essential nature. And though this understanding is comforting, bringing partial peace of mind. The content on the screen needs our understanding as well, before acceptance. After all our essential self is the origin of all content. Then full, not partial peace of mind is possible, and letting be happens, over thinking stops.

@@litresearch87 That's for sure! He himself isn't happy in his private life

He's off in a number of ways, but way too confident that he's "arrived".