Consciousness Is Much Bigger Than the Finite Mind

[@msmacmac1000]

I’m getting ther! Slowly but surely ❤️

[@DanielColageo]

This man is a blessing

[@lexw0rth]

Daniel Colageo my

[@haunteddeandollsuk]

@dragonofthewest8305the legend of dr spira

[@entschnabler]

"Time is what eternity looks like when refracted through thought. Space is what infinity looks like when refracted through persception." Rupert Spira on the mind as a prism refracting conciousness.

[@jesusolmo6278]

“Awareness is unbounded, undifferentiated, and is present in all things. It doth not distinguish between ‘I’ and all else, because it dwelleth in everything. Consciousness is a manifestation of awareness that is bounded and particular. It is concentrated in a single place and time, and is limited to a single point of view. Consciousness continually reacheth out toward awareness, to join it, but it cannot without giving up what it is. The grain of salt cannot experience the brine without dissolving.” -Carolyn Ives Gilman, "Dark Orbit".

[@lindaj71]

Apart from Rupert’s brilliance which is so uplifting-he is the sweetest person.

[@TigerDragonStorm]

"God IS this" exactly what I said too when i saw through this illusion experientialy :)

[@diptendrabasu7783]

Thank you for your lucid explanations and great contribution to all of us. And congratulations on completing 10 years on this KZbin channel!

[@traceyvaccarino]

life is being lived through us

[@JamesBS]

Rupert Spira bosses this understanding

[@brendanlea3605]

I have been struggling with the Mary and Jane analogy, this explains it beautifully, thank you.

[@ZENderista]

Me too, he explained it here very well.

[@Ymiraku]

i think this was the best explanation

[@wallysoto6273]

Deepest ascended soul out there! He has upgraded me to beyond Epsilon levels of awareness! Meditation is the only way here!

[@embodiedauthenticity]

It's fascinating how Rupert Spira describes things, which are describing something outside of the mind's ability to understand (infinite consciousness) in a way that still the finite mind seems to be able to grasp and understand :)

[@freeman669]

Great teacher thank you 🙂

[@fernandascigliano1573]

Beautiful!

[@Ymiraku]

so this is what was experienced, the collapsing of the finite self into infinity. A see of infinite knowledge, power, ecstasy, bliss, all knowing and yet... total silence

[@heartsutra123]

Rupert, you are lovely. Thank you 🙏

[@GioiaIris]

Beloved Rupert. God s shining completely in you. Sweet touch of grace.❤️

[@RelicofNod]

In you and as you, as well Iris.

[@armeniancavebeast1418]

Wow!! Norman Bates has really turned his life around.

[@rinku1605]

Hi.. Rupert. I am from india and this is quite fascinating that an Eastern man finds it easy to understand the non dual teaching from a western. I wonder if you could ever come to india for a retreat. Wish I could join one of those in west. Love from india.

[@duffersweeney]

Ravish he does online webinars where you can ask him a question, I attended the latest one. It was very helpful. It's by donation so affordable. Check out his site under webinars.

[@duffersweeney]

Gil Monteverde you’re very welcome. You just need a web cam and a microphone if you want to ask a question. I didn’t ask a question that time just listened to others. Next time I will 🧘‍♂️

[@ONeA2122]

With the mind brings consciousness a knowing of it's reality to precieve the mysteries of it. Our consciousness without the mind is like any other life form that produces

[@anduinxbym6633]

I love your videos! You're a great teacher.

[@matthewking7874]

great message & wisdom

[@LuisRamos0]

17:06 "it is this, it is this"

[@Lila-cy8qm]

Thanks for this beauty dream in the Dream.

[@becomethebestversionofyour2369]

outstanding thanks

[@sammiller9855]

Thank you Robert for the lovely thought-provoking dream analogy. However, I am weary of your speculation that "all is consciousness". There is no way we will ever know for sure as our intellect is limited to our own conditioned, subjective experience. We can only infer what ultimate reality is. There is no way to fully prove or disprove such a premise. So while it may be a mind expanding exploration to consider the possibility, it seems unnecessary to take an authoritative position as you have that "all is consciousness". As you teach, our suffering rises from the deeply held belief we are separate, living in a world of separate objects, when in fact all there is unity. Where I differ, is that the "stuff" of this unity, what it is made of, whether "material" or "consciousness", is inconsequential when it comes to understanding our suffering. Thich Nhat Hanh uses the lovely analogy of a flower. If you look deeply at a flower, all you see is non-flower elements--the clouds and rain, the sunlight, the minerals in the soil, etc. The flower is entirely made up of and dependent upon the rest of the universe for its existence. It has no-separate self. Now, whether the "elements" of the flower is pure consciousness or matter is irrelevant to the task at hand--realizing interbeing/wholeness, dissolving the falsehood of our separation, that "things" have inherent self-existence. In my humble opinion, we need another term besides "consciousness" that refers to the substratum of reality, one that is neither limited to our materialistic views nor to our specio-centric experience of consciousness and desire to have ultimate reality easily relatable. I like the terms beingness, suchness, isness, as they imply neither. Being able to surrender to the great Mystery of Life, the ultimate that lies beyond our comprehension, is the path.

[@d1427]

who is Robert?

[@rg8276]

daisilui ...Is that the only thing you took away from this extremely thoughtful question?...Robert, Rupert, ...whatever 🙃

[@LuisRamos0]

14:56 "that should blow our minds"

[@brendanlea3605]

Its wonderful how he gently tries to stop her from trying to understand it with her mind :)

[@ZENderista]

So can the function of dreaming be to give us an analogy of what Reality is?

[@thedreamerisme6275]

The God Mind is magnificent.

[@OnlyNewAgeMusic]

Isn’t it consciousness itself that creates the limited mind and its view of the “world” - so we understand Consciousness is the world... or in other words, consciousness doesn’t need the mind to perceive or create views of an “outside diverse world” but it IS the mind and the world

[@RelicofNod]

Yes, the mind and all the things the mind sees are made of the same thing, consciousness.

[@OnlyNewAgeMusic]

And consciousness is not “a thing” but the non objective presence of infinite awareness...

[@marianking1379]

Does this help us to love and be kind in this world. End of 🤔

[@simbo57]

Hi Rupert, I expect you are familiar with the right side of the brain being more creative and the left side of the brain being more logical. Would you say a dream is happening in the right brain and the experiencing and remembering of the dream goes on in the left side of the brain?

[@innerlight617]

6.54 Are limitations of Jane's mind changeable?Are they following an evolutionary process?

[@michaeldanielson3098]

This is an interesting concept, but how does this help alleviate suffering?

[@CalebKan]

Wow

[@Adidance23]

So what is lucid dreaming? Is it being enlightened during a dream?

[@pintupramod]

Make him debate richard dawkins. Wow

[@esneliamunoz5082]

🕉🕉🕉

[@timallsopp9622]

Therefore, we are in god or consciousness or the quantum field and god or consciousness or the quantum field is in us. We are light energy, from wave to particle, condensed down to these meat sacks and bone with a bio-electric brain to this experience. Now, the more we identify to the body the farther away from consciousness we become, some say this is the fall. Thusly, the vanity of knowing better, the ego is- one way of many, the so called devil. Infact, my limited understanding is the major religions simply describe this at their core. Unfortunately, the ego’s through history have manipulated things. Other ego’s want only their understanding to be “it”. Infinite consciousness is timeless, there is no time, only the present moment. At the absolute present moment one truly finds.

[@doriesse824]

Can this be known absolutely, or is it just believed to be so?

[@TigerDragonStorm]

It can be experienced as self-evident yes In fact, you're always experiencing it but the mind (seemingly) filters it as rupert also said

[@doriesse824]

I found it very confusing that he said he's not an idealist, but ended up teaching idealism in his last statement.

[@Gottfried1983]

Everything is a fucking paradox! Doesn't anyone see it? It is always BOTH, always this AND that. Always idealism AND materialism. Always YOUR point of view and GOD's point of view.

[@jakekenner1386]

The essential question is why is there something rather than nothing? Why does anything exist? The strange answer is that it doesn’t. Nothing really exists. The apparent existence of everything is really nothing in disguise. This is the holographic disguise of nothing appearing as something. This is the conclusion of the holographic principle that tells us the appearance of all things is really a holographic projection from a bounding surface of space, which acts as a holographic screen that encodes all bits of information for those things, to the central point of view of an observer, which observes the holographic appearance of those things. Everything really is all in the mind. The mind is a mental screen that is an observation-limiting bounding surface of space that acts as a holographic screen. Without a mind, there is only the formless, infinite oneness of nothingness, and yet this formless emptiness has the unlimited potential to holographically create a limited observable world of forms and perceive that world from the limited perspective of the central point of view of that world. The important distinction is between unlimited Brahmanic consciousness, which is the nature of the formless void of nothingness that exists prior to the creation of a limited world of forms and has the unlimited potential to create limited worlds of forms, and limited Atmanic consciousness, which is the nature of an observer and its observable world. What limits Atmanic consciousness is a bounding surface of space that arises in the observer’s accelerated frame of reference as energy is expended and acts as a limiting holographic screen that projects all images of the observer’s world to the observer’s central point of view of that world. This limiting holographic screen is really a mental screen, which is the nature of the movie-in-the-mind the observer observes. Without that limitation, consciousness becomes unlimited, which must ultimately occur when energy is no longer expended, the observer’s accelerated frame of reference comes to an end, the mental screen is no longer constructed on an observation-limiting bounding surface of space, and the observer’s world and mind disappear from existence. When the observer is no longer present for its world and mind and its world and mind disappear from existence, the observer’s limited consciousness can only return to and reunite itself with unlimited consciousness. It's then possible to say as Shankara stated long ago: Ultimately there is no difference between Atman and Brahman. For a scientific discussion of how everything is really all in the mind, see: scienceandnonduality.wordpress.com/2019/01/25/its-all-in-the-mind/ For a discussion of how consciousness creates reality as a holographic virtual reality along the lines of the Matrix, see: scienceandnonduality.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/consciousness-creates-reality/

[@The-Other-Guy]

First to see this video? damned, my ego loves it!

[@gitaarmanad3048]

If nothing exists and there's only the knowing 'I am', what happens? The 'I am' may try to describe this 'nothingness' for itself. But there's no way to describe it. So the next move can only be, to describe the opposite of that. To describe everything the nothingness is NOT, in endless detail. This desription ofcourse is an illusion in the mind of the 'I am', but it's most wonderful. Because the nothingness is NOT time and space, neighter is it light or energy. It is NOT stars and planets, it is NOT life forms, let alone life forms that can create facilities to consciousness. This contra description of the nothingness is an illusion in the mind of the 'I am' consciousness. To us it is creation, because we are not the total 'I am' consciousness, but only a tiny part of it. So to us it is very real. Not an illusion at all. From our perspective however, it is more respectful and also more grateful to call the 'I am' awareness ''God'', the creator of all there is. Isn't that beautiful?

[@shanebowers2800]

Mary had a little lamb my man

[@kevinpersia5201]

I have question: If God is experiencing world through us then god is like us as humans cos Mary sees objects through Jane (Jane and Mary are humans) if not, Is god seeing everything through everything I mean even trees, stones, every thing in universe are objects so why not god experience all other objects through stone or flower or a tree?

[@PB-mp7qt]

It is all consciousness experiencing itself,not just through humans but through all levels of being and intelligence, whatever it is where we it is , it is consciousness

[@MayaState]

Yes, KZbin is wonderful lol

[@marianking1379]

Flippin heck, lm so dim what the heck, does it really matter x

[@arifzainal8694]

Does God's dream permanent or temporary? Does this dream going to end? Is death the end of the dream?

[@susanfoster4141]

Only the view of the finite mind. Ultimately nothing dies because nothing was born..

[@TheAmbamatamantrasvideos]

the dream ends when you understand you dream it.

[@pettiprue]

Thank you Rupert. A have a question. Does the appearance of a forest in Jane's finite mind have life? In other words is a forest that appears the same as a living breathing real biological forest?

[@elifineart]

What is a real living breathing biological forest? isn't it an appearance in consciousness just the same as the forest in the dream? from my understanding of the nondual and advaita vedanta techings this "real" waking world is no more real then the world you perceive in a dream, both ultimately are made of and perceived by the one absolute pure consciousness.

[@pettiprue]

Thank you Eli for your feedback. I am meditating (allowing stillness) on the question from the question. Lets see what arises from it. Cheers mate.

[@dorarebelo673]

The in-credible that is totally credible. As for the field of possibilities, look what I found when I googled the word limbo. It gave me the option of selecting 'limbo game'. Let's take Jane's terrorist limbo game of inertia, for instance... "Limbo (game) is a place for your immortal soul. So, he is forever condemned to pursue his sister (Heaven) without ever reaching her. The game is all about this boy's punishment for committing Original sin, but not being evil. He isn't evil enough because he is very young." "Inertia is a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged." As I watched this video last night I couldn't stop laughing... on my God, no wonder I love cats! It is like, I AM a cat. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGSUd5iqfLure7M

[@osvaldovaldes10009]

....why do we see seven billion similar daytime worlds but seven billion different night time dreams? It should be the same since it is the same consciousness, no? Why do we project "a familiar world" and not something totally unknown?

[@d1427]

who is 'we'- the ones in the dream or those in the waking state? What makes you think that what you call waking is real and the dream state unreal? When you 'wake up' it may very well mean that actually you go to 'dreaming' from the perspective of what you call 'the dream state' if the convention would be reversed. Who's to say- this curiosity about daytime and night time experiences is just a diversion; rather redirect the curiosity towards the one dreaming/being awake [however you put it] and investigate its reality

[@osvaldovaldes10009]

real, unreal...?

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[@Wetboyslim]

Some peoples have only a little consciousness and much bigger mind, full of sawdust :)

[@marianking1379]

Yea me