Awareness of Being Requires No Effort

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

I use to go very often in my kayak to paddle alone through the numerous creeks and lagoons of the Everglades and once there in the middle of no where I ask myself “Am I aware of being”? Then a huge silence arises and the only thing I notice is a subtle vibration above my head and and immense calm that passes all understanding. Unfortunately it doesn’t last too long, but I can’t stop thanking Rupert for showing me this beautiful question I read in his book: “ being aware of being aware” Is so simple

[@michaelgusovsky]

@@TheAetherKnows well said. the more we abide in silent mind, the more the structures of the ego are burned away. interesting how you experience it as rain washing away the world from your eyes. i experience it as my heart being on fire, a pulsating energy. i just want to sit in this ordinary room, in silence, as everything burns away. there is great peace, great bliss, to abide in this.

[@brianlittrell797]

Being consciously aware that I exist is the ​same as me being aware that I am aware?@@TheAetherKnows

[@Ron-rk6iz]

Maybe just take a dive while Kayaking, that helps too.

[@merrickb9559]

Alligators though 😊

[@ellenrule3189]

Nice

[@beezusmahoney]

I understand and resonate with the questioner. It feels like the effort is constantly catching myself and coming back to just being. It's the frustration of constantly realizing I am completely absorbed in my mind. The exhausting part is the "realization" that my attention has been nabbed by thought again and again and again. It DOES feel exhausting.... but just the initial single thought that comes up that "I" am lost in thought. It's exhausting because it's constant sometimes. Sometimes I can realize what is happening and then slip smoothly out of mind. More often though it comes with very visceral body sensations

[@PureAwareness76]

There is nowhere to go and nothing to do. Pure Awareness is always with us, 24/7. "When nothing works, try doing nothing - NOTHING works." Dr. Frank Kinslow 💗

[@merrickb9559]

You’ve explained exactly what has happened to me a thousand times now over the last 6 months. Catching my focus or attention on some thoughts, some worry usually, and then getting frustrated that I was so absorbed and felt taken away.

[@louisroudaut5220]

It may be causes by some trauma stored in the body also. Your personnal awareness cannot stay for long in the body because some emotions stored in it are too hard to bare in the moment, which cause your awareness to move into the head. In this state you are deprived of a full experience of your awareness. I experience this change directly after an intense traumatic event. The visceral bodily sensations accompagnying your experience may also be some energy trapped in the body following some traumatic events that sometimes can have happened years and years before (specially in the case of complex ptsd). This energy needs to be released in order for the awareness to reinvest the body and be fully experienced. I find that a lot of spiritual teachers often overlook the obstacle that trauma can be, and you Can sometimes feel that you are doing things wrong. There is a lot of resources on youtube about traumas and how to heal if your are interested, more on a sommatic and psychological approach.

[@beezusmahoney]

@@louisroudaut5220 I started looking into fetter work online and finding it helpful

[@FirstPersonHood]

The catcher is duality.

[@biffin62]

Being is the only certain fact of our existence. Descartes was wrong; it's not, 'I think therefore I am' but 'I am therefore I think'. Being is upstream of thought, upstream of everything.

[@PureAwareness76]

💗 2:08 "What happens, when you ask the question, "Am I aware of being aware?" That's the point! 💗 And Rupert (as the ONLY "famous" teacher today, except the lovely Dr. Frank Kinslow!), who pointed out to the MOMENT / SILENCE AFTER THIS QUESTION! Thank God, and to Rupert Spira 🫢, that this bril "method" brings an and to the endless meditations, "practices" and talks about "being in the now", "emptiness", etc. Neither we don't need to do breath work, or integrate (?) anything. Here we go. That's the whole trick of "Awakening"; WHERE IS OUR ATTENTION? Are we aware of being aware? Are we aware, that we're THAT, Pure Awareness / Self? 💗 (Or we're just playing the Awakening / Liberaration game...? 💲💲)

[@bjarkenielsen8515]

When I had my epiphany with awareness, I came out of it with a big smile on my face saying “Descartes was wrong”.

[@lw9308]

Being, the only experience there is that takes no effort

[@BRINGM3LOVE]

A good teacher, especially after one has had a first realization. I understand the frustration of the questioner. Being aware of awareness, what does it mean when you have to experience with it? I used several years to find the answer, meanwhile I found a comfort hearing ABOUT the teachings and understanding what is possible on a theoretical level. I had to put a lot of practical effort into finding that gap in the mind, but now its effortless. What I found frustrating with teachings like Spiras before I had the experience of being is the focus on the effortlessness. My tip is to meditate with open awareness, just try to not control the mind at all. But you dont think every second, when i close my eyes there is thought, but there is also a black canvas. Seeing that was the start for me. When i close my eyes know now, there are no thought, its just silent (mind) - black canvas. Even when feelings arise I have this silence with me. And I would not focus that much on being in the beginning because Its like beginning on level 8 in a video game. One of my favourite teachers, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, says "Meditation is about awareness, and awareness means knowing". I would focus on learning to notice different kind of experiences that you already know. One of the easiest for me is frustration, for example if you don't the bus. Seeing "ah, im frustrated and i know that im frustrated". That is to me a crucial skill to have. If you dont know that you are frustrated, how can you know being? I would also use different kind of teachers. One of the persons that thought me most both on is Echart Tolle which explains great both when it comes to being, but also when it comes to how the conditioned mind actually work.

[@PureAwareness76]

💗 2:08 "What happens, when you ask the question, "Am I aware of being aware?" That's the point! 💗 And Rupert (as the ONLY "famous" teacher today, except the lovely Dr. Frank Kinslow!), who pointed out to the MOMENT / SILENCE AFTER THIS QUESTION! Thank God, and to Rupert Spira 🫢, that this bril "method" brings an and to the endless meditations, "practices" and talks about "being in the now", "emptiness", etc. Neither we don't need to do breath work, or integrate (?) anything. Here we go. That's the whole trick of "Awakening"; WHERE IS OUR ATTENTION? Are we aware of being aware? Are we aware, that we're THAT, Pure Awareness / Self? 💗 (Or we're just playing the Awakening / Liberaration game...? 💲💲)

[@frontsidegrinder6858]

You are connected to the devine, it's our natural gift. There is only one truth, not another.

[@malabuha]

I remember Allan Watts called this specific question "a double bind" situation. There's absolutely nothing to find in achieving mental satisfaction that you can hold awareness of the awareness at will. It's just a control freak in "You" that's perusing a wild goose. You will never hold awareness captive because it's the essence of being and knowing without which you can't be aware of the awareness. You are always in the Knowing

[@PureAwareness76]

🎉 There is a huge gap (fortunately) between Rupert's and all the other teachers (except only a few, like Dr. Frank Kinslow's) teachings. In this gap there is Pure Awareness / the Self 💗

[@AsiriLiyanaArachchi19]

​@@PureAwareness76 you having to say something like this here ( my dad is better than your dad ) says all anybody needs to know :-D . love

[@liviuclipa]

Three years ago i had a spontaneous nirvikalpa samadhi where i experienced Satchitananda. That being, existence, presence call it whatever you want, it is so obvious in our everyday experience that we miss it all the time. That experience never left me, IT is always there and i am That.

[@PureAwareness76]

I can't say anything what I have experienced for a while now... Except, experiencing being aware of being aware 💗

[@ellenrule3189]

Hi Rupert. Blessings!!

[@PureAwareness76]

💗 2:08 "What happens, when you ask the question, "Am I aware of being aware?" That's the point! 💗 And Rupert (as the ONLY "famous" teacher today, except the lovely Dr. Frank Kinslow!), who pointed out to the MOMENT / SILENCE AFTER THIS QUESTION! Thank God, and to Rupert Spira, that 🫢 this bril "method" gives an and to the endless meditations, "practices" and talks about "being in the now", "emptiness", etc. Neither we don't need to do breath work, or integrate (?) anything. Here we go. That's the whole trick of "Awakening"; WHERE IS OUR ATTENTION? Are we aware of being aware? Are we aware, that we're THAT, Pure Awareness / Self? 💗 (Or we're just playing the Awakening / Liberaration game...? 💲💲)

[@ruisoares4515]

Great answer Rupert! Thanks for sharing!

[@angeloiodice9304]

Now, there is the most refreshing thought I have heard in a long, long time: “There is nothing spiritual in what we do here.” Labeling this entire genre as “spiritual,” divorces us from reality, and prevents the physical and mental aspects, as well as the backdrop, coming to the fore as just being, the way it is. As a study, we must break down and dissect. But, if we want to be cured, we must allow no breakdown and distinctions. Mind, matter and spirit are all the One, appearing as distinctions. A sort of trick or play of consciousness. Waking up from distinctions might describe what we are doing, mist and ice returning to water.

[@robertallen6710]

'Sorrowing is just a veiling of happiness'...refreshing indeed...

[@ralf.starke]

100% true. Being is giving up all effort.

[@PureAwareness76]

Yes ❤ There is a huge gap (fortunately) between Rupert's and all the other teachers (except only a few, like Dr. Frank Kinslow's) teachings. In this gap there is Pure Awareness / the Self 💗

[@robertashaffer3950]

Eye opener. Wow. Thank you Mr. Spira 🙏

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Thankyou dear Rupert ❤

[@PureAwareness76]

💗 There is a huge gap (fortunately) between Rupert's and all the other teachers (except only a few, like Dr. Frank Kinslow's) teachings. In this gap there is Pure Awareness / the Self 💗

[@PureAwareness76]

"Samadhi", "Sat-Chit-Ananda", "Kundalini awakening (?)"... I've never ever experienced any of these... As a matter of fact, I can't say anything what I have experienced for a while now... Except, experiencing being aware of being aware 💗

[@ellenrule3189]

Wonderful U skipped to the truth

[@PureAwareness76]

@@ellenrule3189 Thank you, Lovely 😍

[@youssefalaoui4286]

The Gold takes form as a jewel and we recognize the jewel as a thought. The form of thought captures our attention and by doing so it obscures the fact that it is the Gold we are looking for.

[@PureAwareness76]

💗 2:08 "What happens, when you ask the question, "Am I aware of being aware?" That's the point! 💗 And Rupert (as the ONLY "famous" teacher today, except the lovely Dr. Frank Kinslow!), who pointed out to the MOMENT / SILENCE AFTER THIS QUESTION! Thank God, and to Rupert Spira, that 🫢 this bril "method" gives an and to the endless meditations, "practices" and talks about "being in the now", "emptiness", etc. Neither we don't need to do breath work, or integrate (?) anything. Here we go. That's the whole trick of "Awakening"; WHERE IS OUR ATTENTION? Are we aware of being aware? Are we aware, that we're THAT, Pure Awareness / Self? 💗 (Or we're just playing the Awakening / Liberaration game...? 💲💲)

[@martins3417]

I completely agree with the questioner here and I dont understand Rupert's answer. It takes me constant work and effort to glimpse my own awareness and the glimpses last for a moment only. During awareness of awareness there is an additional awareness of the difficulty of staying in that awareness, and awareness that it will soon finish.

[@TerratenienteFox]

Reading your description of being aware of being aware it seems like you have an idea of how it is and should be. It seems like it should not include thoughts. but thats not always the case. That is just awareness of a quiet mind. Because even when you are thinking, you are aware of being aware. When you percibe something, you are aware of being aware. why? Because all your perceptions are made of and are possible only by awareness. You need awareness to know anything. If you are alive you can be sure that you are aware of being aware. Where the mind takes your attention is something entirely diferent. And that's maybe what creates the sense of effort and confusion.

[@FirstPersonHood]

Mental activity is dual. Nuff said.

[@sunisagotirat1332]

🙏🙏🙏Thank you

[@joshuabaehr44]

I often have the same confusion.. the problem for me was the words, "aware of being". The "of" makes being into an object and awareness into the instrument. Even the question, "Are you aware?" implies a distinction between the person and the awareness. All of this makes the meditation very mental. I say take the awareness out of the equation, since clearly that is a given. It is Being itself that we sink into in meditation. Or rather, that we find revealed in us, as us.

[@PureAwareness76]

🎉 There is a huge gap (fortunately) between Rupert's and all the other teachers (except only a few, like Dr. Frank Kinslow's) teachings. In this gap there is Pure Awareness / the Self 💗

[@tonyg3693]

I believe that there is an effort, although the word effort may be very strong. And it is the effort to move attention from outside to inside. It takes effort because we are programmed for attention to constantly go outward. There is no effort in being because we always are. But there is an effort in being aware of being. Nisargadatta, Mooji, Gurdjieff say it. The issue is the confusion at the levels of consciousness or levels from which it is seen. From the point of view of identity there is an effort. Thought and attention is what will allow the body-mind to move more towards the satvic, which is the maximum it can achieve. From the point of view of consciousness there is only being... there is not even a point of view, nor "someone" who is aware of anything or has to make an effort towards anything. But, sadhana is bringing attention to the I Am, and that implies something that we could define as effort.

[@dianebode6551]

Thank you!!!❤

[@jonathankusimweray9100]

Great question! It’s hard to know the knower without logic and all logic is thoughts so it takes effort to maintain and keep this logic at mind!? (Something I believe to experiencing)

[@davidmickles5012]

From the "Shiva Sutras" of Kashmiri Shaivism (multiple translations): 1:7 Even during the three ordinary, mundane (dualistic) states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep, one can still experience the fourth state of "turiya" (pure being) - because the three states are experiences that are experienced by a consciousness, and consciousness is that fourth state. In other words, you are always aware if you simply notice it. Noticing your awareness requires non effort, but not effort. Relax the body, allow what ever comes to mind to come in and go out. This is just bring present with what is. 🙏❤

[@-Boundless-]

The mind will never know that THIS very appearance already has no observer or substance yet is present and revealed all by itself.

[@michaelseale7268]

Knowing, our awareness of Being, is not a constant religious state in which we feel the Presence of God. But there are times in our awareness that this Holy Presence is sensed especially in our Loving Oneness experiences.

[@hasmanhussin909]

Awareness is not thoughts but feelings

[@SirFency]

I understand what she is saying. I have to fight away thoughts constantly. That's the effort. I can be in the moment only momentarily. It takes effort to get there and I need to "get there" continuously. It is not natural for me to be free of thought. Also I always have a song stuck in my head. 100% of the time. I can't get rid of them.

[@uwvadertje]

Same and at night my mind races even when I sleep and first thing when i wake up too

[@johnwiersba9957]

I also have a song in my head 100% of the time. But one can "de-focus" attention (stop focusing attention on the song, on thoughts, on sights, etc), relax, and just be. That's the experience of being or the awareness of being.

[@timmccarthy6374]

The chatter in the mind stops when you focus on breathing

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for this, 🎯♥😶 🙏☮ wishing love, grace, courage and understanding for all

[@ailidhlalala1592]

I figured that every clinging on thoughts, problems and wannabes is a lot of tension When I consciously relax (remove the tension in my body) I am not able to follow my sorrow, to follow any idea of myself It really seems the effort to solve anything is the problem Relax and watch.... And you just am....

[@widipermono854]

🙏🙏🙏

[@bjk7797]

AWARENESS is beyond experience even ,simply because whatever you conceive,perceive or experience is mind only . AWARENESS is effortless,beautiful .Namaskar

[@tanu4647]

Epic honest question by Honest brutal truth woman, In fact most of human beings suffer. Being n thinking tussle between Monkey mind n non acceptable Heart ❤

[@FirstPersonHood]

Now you tell me!😊

[@wendyknapp9826]

😂

[@DihelsonMendonca]

Where there is effort, there is thought. 🎉❤

[@kristinyellowrobe1224]

I started being aware of awareness in a roundabout way of hiking/walking alone . Talking to the God/Creator I called it❤ as I have become aware through a 12 step program of AA .😊.

[@PureAwareness76]

🎉 There is a huge gap (fortunately) between Rupert's and all the other teachers (except only a few, like Dr. Frank Kinslow's) teachings. In this gap there is Pure Awareness / the Self 💗

[@kristinyellowrobe1224]

@@PureAwareness76 I would like to check these other authors you've mentioned

[@PureAwareness76]

@@kristinyellowrobe1224 Yes please! 💗 Dr. Frank Kinslow is unique, in every aspect. He has a KZbin channel and many books - not a well nown, well marketed guru, but a real one 🫢

[@gireeshneroth7127]

Assuming an ego status consciousness self outcasts.

[@simonhitchenk9]

Maybe in our culture we are so used to making an effort to achieve x, y or z that it seems counter intuitive not to make an effort to reach or attain awareness. It seems that effort itself is part of the veiling of awareness

[@RupinderKaur-mz3yr]

Wonderful ❤ yes it’s dichotomy! It is and it isn’t at the same time 😂 be aware of your awareness- it comes with practice 😁

[@tonyg3693]

Exactly, friend! There is an effort, although such a word is strong, in the work, or the practice, as you say, of trying to be aware.

[@MotherTreeNMoon]

So damn good😌😌

[@ElAsh-pc7fr]

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake. ~Shunryu Suzuk

[@aditya21221]

❤

[@mukeshdesai2862]

5:11. 👌 6:28 👍 6:54 🚩🔐 7:21. Partial self knowledge veils my nature of peace and happiness

[@knowledge-j3k]

I am that I am...

[@Triton67se]

Know that you ARE enlightened, you can not be "unenlightened". the MIND however is the "seeker", "philosopher", "person" etc. Don't look for for a "Self", it is already working on its other half so to speak, the human mind....which is the personhood. Follow your empty mind...it is already still so why go there looking? It will now (You that is, the Self!) start working on the mind ("Self's "personhood- the other half of real You). Stop searching, start listenning to yourself, guiding, giving ideas to drop personal issues and start using the body and mind for greatness for humanitarian needs. YOU, Life, Self is right now ready to service humanity through "You" with the body and thinking mind. Do something fun, make great plans, be yourself.

[@robertolazzaretti9526]

Dear Rupert could you explain the ontological difference,if any, between consciousness and awareness? So far I can understand, is consciousness eternal and awareness linked to time/space/existence? Thank so much!

[@calvinrakotobe5583]

These are two synonymous words in Rupert's terminology. He makes the difference between the infinite and the finite in order to draw attention to the infinite. That's why he uses Infinite Consciousness or Awareness or Being as opposed to the Finite Mind.

[@robertoziemer1703]

Sustaining the effort is what makes the separate self real

[@toribellum]

I see, she was confused by thinking about being aware as awareness-that’s effort. We’re already aware. Interesting perspective

[@sashab3166]

I think we somtimes just mimic the effort on behalf of our "separate self"..

[@gra6649]

Someone said, “be still and know that I Am God.”

[@TheAmbamatamantrasvideos]

BE~ING , is lost in BE~come~ING

[@simplysunmoon]

❤️☀️🌙

[@lostsoleful]

But "pure" non-duality would be an impossible ideal, would it not? We are chasing an impossible ideal; there comes a point where we can say, "I'm much happier now, so I'll stop chasing the ideal"? Someone who's been meditating in a cave for ten years may seem like they are experiencing everything as pure awareness but that illusion is shattered when a lion walks in or when a stalagtite falls off the roof and makes them jump out of their skin?

[@basketofpuppys]

I listened to all of alan watts Ram dass Terrence Mckenna and Rupert helped a lot ecolt tolle is ok but he can make you fall alsleep anyone else know people like them and Ruper spira i can learn from ?

[@carlosirles8382]

Why the mind is so complicated looking for the most dificult way to be aware of being aware???? We are aware 24/7

[@samuelwebster2670]

It’s lovely and calming to listen to this, but it’s hard to trust someone who has all the answers. ❤

[@mick6812]

Thought aware of thought a dog chasing his own tail..

[@alanfrancis9225]

You can’t explain being aware. Once you think your not aware.We can only observe it in ourselves. By observing it as it observes. The lady however was explaining how her perception changed ( the old woman young woman) . Which is the brain seeing patterns.

[@emendatus1]

You didnt answer the question. We know ourselves partially not clearly. So what shall we do?

[@emendatus1]

@@TheAetherKnows How to be myself?

[@shinertaz]

What you do is close your eyes and imagine your thoughts , mind / body and breath sinking into the space in which all is contained within presence and their you have pure beiness that empty space where all is consumed

[@FatherOFavs]

Being aware you are unaware IS awareness. Simplicity itself 🤪

[@wiwiholic]

I didn't understand

[@Returntolove123]

I suspect a lot of this is the emperor's new clothes. Does everyone in the room actually understand him? I doubt it. That woman was being honest

[@mikefriesdrums]

It’s never not here

[@SamA-nj7yr]

Thought is the effort, awareness is the non-effort.

[@troyortego4655]

i think ... oops!

[@awakenotwoke7949]

It seems to me that awareness and being arise together you cannot separate them. So being aware of being as that statement says implies a gap, a knower and a known. And the analogy of the young woman/old hag picture demonstrates that. You cannot experience seeing both simultaneously. You can switch your focus back and forth. You can Know there are two, but that knowledge is of the mind, and it's impossible to be aware of being.

[@perandersson8001]

It seems to me that Being is prior to the concept of awareness. It feels like awareness is a dualistic concept that demands something to be aware of.

[@Jamesgarethmorgan]

You can't 'be aware of being aware' all the time. Rupert seems to think being aware of being aware - or being aware of being - is the answer to everything. It ain't! It won't stop any physical pain if the pain is bad enough for example. It won't earn you any money (unless like him you can sit around chatting about this stuff all day and night). People get it in their heads that 'being aware of being' is some kind of end-game result. WRONG! You still have to live your life earn money etc.

[@Ron-rk6iz]

Awareness of being haha, look in the mirror.

[@malaselvarajah5398]

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[@fhl60]

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