Enlightenment Is Not an Exotic Experience

[@micktbaby]

I started my journey towards enlightenment over 20 years ago. So true it is not an exotic experience. It occurred recently for me, not on a mountain, by the ocean, sunset, or sunrise. Not while meditating, or practicing yoga. I was in my car and someone cut me off in traffic, I responded by going to my breath and saying let go. It was so complete a release that I will never forget it, and in that instant I was forever changed. The understanding of where my journey had been leading in a moment that I was not searching and seeking, simply revealed. Truly astonishing !

[@archsys307]

Bro leveled up big W

[@kenjones102]

Byron Katie awakened when a cockroach crossed her foot. Adyashanti awakened one day while walking across a carpet. If I can find the same carpet and species of cockroach, that still leaves the make and model of your car! Please help.

[@archsys307]

@@kenjones102 Instructions unclear, made myself into a model. Not sure this'll help with enlightenment...

[@Soulsmusic1931]

I would not say that I am enlightened but I would say that I merely exist as consciousness now which is aware of itself, mind, thoughts, body and everything else.. I said something to the love of my life and ended up hurting her which was the last thing that I wanted to happen which led me question by beliefs and concepts.. I guess this happened cuz she is my twin flame and it's been 2 years in this journey already, even though I don't want to label it like that but it is what it is.. My love for her led me to question everything that my mind has been going on about since childhood..

[@anonaki-mt6xb]

I was in line at Walmart at 11:43 pm. Funny how things go sometimes. It was astonishing to say the least.

[@q-j-p]

Saw a blurb I wrote to myself some time ago that resurfaced today which I hope helps “The mind connects the within and without. Within is presence, without perception” Bless all on your journeys ❣️☯️

[@kundaliniairport]

It's a blurp, no doubt. Question is, did it come out of your mouth or rectum?

[@msrmsr9999]

I think, the word mind can be replaced with a word which is awareness.

[@Da_Xman]

✨Well stated, q-j-p!✨

[@Da_Xman]

​@@msrmsr9999 YES!

[@hourih2862]

You feel as though you are watching yourself as a 3rd party. You watch Emotions come and go but you are not attached to them. You are physically playing out a role but YOU are actually not doing anything. There is no duality. There are no wants or desires left. There is no resistance left. You will start seeing the illusion. You will become one with everything. If you are able to quiet the mind you will slowly return to your natural state Brahman 🙏🏼

[@innerlight617]

For me the basic understanding in non-dual approach is, that we are all aspects or manifestations of a single indivisible whole or reality.Our belief of separation,of individuality ,is due to ignorance. Deep understanding of the above weaken considerably the two major beliefs which constitute the self-illusion state. 1 .There is me (individualization)2. I am so and so (identification). It is the first step towards equanimity. And equanimity for me is bliss.

[@WildSatsang]

This beingness Rupert refers to is immediately available to everybody 💜

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

That’s easy for you to say. Speaking from the level of Being and speaking about Being are not the same thing - the mind likes to dwell on concepts but Being is the absence of concepts.

[@Anlonn]

Enlightenment Is Not an Exotic Experience. yes it is. one of the most amazing experiences. that "aha moment", that "waking up" and every answer that comes with it, makes it exotic. it's like falling in love for the first time but with a dose of maturity and conscious actions.

[@stelladonnelly2832]

I would say he means that it must be the most normal thing for us to know that we "are". If an animal could speak, it would know, in it's own way, that it "is".

[@terefefeyssa877]

Anlonn: I lt is not exotic to me. I'm inlighted right now as we speak.

[@Anlonn]

@@stelladonnelly2832 "knowing" is the realm of the mind. the conceptual realm. the abstract realm. also called imagination. who am I is beyond this conceptual realm. it can only be experienced, but can't be named. the moment you try to name anything, that is mind. to find out who you truly are, you need to go beyond thinking, beyond mind. and that is a truly amazing experience.

[@Anlonn]

@@terefefeyssa877 ok.

[@rliljeros]

​@@Anlonn thank you

[@AngieHaze]

Nothing feels closer for me to that “I am” then the moments of letting go and improvising on the piano. It’s not recorded, it’s not structured, there are no rules… there’s only a smile in my heart the entire time- feeling connected to that “being” state and completely letting go and loving all of it and just going with the process no matter what comes out.

[@electricsnut]

Desire is the key, you’re always searching for something to make you happy which means you think you’re missing something and not whole. That means you can never be happy until you find it but there is nothing to be found… To realise the oneness and your perfect already and don’t lack anything. The paradox of this is desire is what makes you seek enlightenment. All this talk however should not understate how profound and peaceful this state is, it’s beyond comprehension… Any psychedelic trip can give you a glimpse of this perfect state of being.

[@asmrquran4374]

if I let go , and no longer desire , what is there to be lived for ? what would make me wake up in the morning ? if I let go , it means I have the desire to let go , the desire to not desire , what ?!!! I am always in desire

[@electricsnut]

@ That makes your entire life conditional and a prisoner of desires that will never be ultimately fulfilled. “Having no attachments or desires doesn’t mean you don’t own anything, it means nothing owns you”

[@zendragon4037]

i equate enlightenment with connection to source and the bliss that comes with that. so i see it as something special. as most people do not live in bliss and joy as a regular thing.

[@bloodsonnet]

I think just by deconstructing our language we can see this issue clearly. Our language always implies a subject and object. We say things like “it is raining” when there is no “it” to be raining, there is just raining. in the exact same way, we say “i am experiencing”, when there is just experience. It’s so clear when one just steps away from the language or looks at it beyond its structure and it proves non duality without having any “mystical” experience.

[@terri6854]

"It" refers to the weather - the state of the weather.

[@worldsarise]

Agree. Language is so psychoactive we often can't experience past its conceptual boundaries. And the shared concepts of language are very powerful and very connecting so it's only natural that such social concepts and meanings would become our default mode, but we can train to rest the mind in whatever is, right now, in immediate sensate reality.

[@TheJooberjones]

Got better towards the end, the barrier is the identification with the form. The hamster wheel has a ton of momentum to it, and this can even be seen in the brain via fmri. So it takes a bit more than simple recognition as rupert says, meditation is a scientific process of disidentification, which happens slowly and arduously for most.

[@ms7HD]

Hamsters wheel has no impact on hamster once he gets off of it even if it still spinning 😂

[@TheJooberjones]

@@ms7HD good luck tryin to get off it while its still spinning 😉

[@geetanjaliputhran6978]

Absolutely agree

[@atmannityananda-autognosia]

Enlightenment is not Just a recognition. It is the full illumination of the mind at all levels and the complete dissolution of the ego and becoming the mind as luminous as Consciousness itself. That's it ❤

[@ascendor.ascendor]

"I am" without a story attached to it.

[@dequationblog]

This is the best 6 minutes I've ever seen with Rupert.

[@stelladonnelly2832]

Part of the problem is that we have to continue using language the way everyone does, which makes it so easy to fall into identification with our experiences and bodily feelings. Imagine filling in a form requiring your details and writing - I Am. !!

[@frv6610]

​@SIMPLY HUMAN why is believing someone is communicating a problem?

[@julien1]

@@frv6610 Describe being happy - at that point you are no longer BEING happy but thinking

[@frv6610]

@@julien1 i think it is a generalization error you make. Yes some people may not be happy while describing their happiness, but imagine an extremely happy person, he would not for sure become unhappy when describing it. Memories are still in the now too, one cant access a memory which doesnt exist, so accessing a happy memory is still real happiness. So what is your point btw?

[@julien1]

@@frv6610 NO im highlighting that BEING happy is different from thinking about happiness. Its the thinking that stops the being. This is the difference between BELIEF and KNOWLEDGE. One is BEING knowledgeable but cannot be BEING believing.

[@russellmason5095]

There are some useful pointers here towards an important truth. However, after watching the video all of the problems of my life go on as before because I don't understand how my mind and samsara work, and I forget that I am awareness for 23 hours and 59 minutes every day. Enlightenment is not just about understanding briefly, having a brief flash of recognition and then forgetting again. This is a pretty low bar, and the knowledge that you are awareness will not do more than temporarily relieve your suffering or may lead to enlightenment sickness or ego inflation. While the ultimate realisation may be as simple as this, the real question is 'How can I stabilize my life in this knowledge?' In almost every case a lot of spiritual practice and study is required to really prepare the mind to be able to understand what "I am awareness" means and to make the understanding ongoing. When the knowledge is stablized during walking, sitting, working, sleeping etc, etc. and the person acts equanimously in every situation, then the person may be enlightened or whatever you want to call it. If they are not reacting equanimously, then of course they are perpetuating suffering for themselves and others and perpetuating samsara. There's a reason why the Buddha started with suffering and the Advaitans talk about suffering, Maya, the Causal Body etc. Suffering is an important of the teaching and a fundamental aspect of our lives and the process of understanding them. I hope you were inspired by this video, but in my view his type of teaching should be seen as the start of a long - and mostly joyous - path and not the end of one. Good luck!

[@user-ij4hp5nn6g]

You don't need to try and stabilise your life, simply be aware of the rollercoaster ride

[@eylam9690]

If you turn it into a path, you will never get there though.

[@mikelipschitz7281]

Great points ,I suppose like how obvious is e=זmc( squared ) but the skill is as you say what to do with the knowledge,and of course getting to that understanding in the first place !!! You make me think of snakes and laders ,you just hope not to many snakes and enough different sized ladders !!!!

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

I am … feeling the presence of love upon hearing this teaching and grateful for it .

[@macaroon147]

Nooo 😂😂😂 just "I am" man

[@Benny_000]

Rupert (and other teachers) need to start talking more about the different levels of Samadhi or Enlightenment. Many in the West seem to be mistaking lower levels of Samadhi for full Enlightenment. When Rupert says that Enlightenment is not an exotic experience, he clearly hasn't attained the highest level of Samadhi yet.

[@miquelom]

I understand that you refers to the different levels of consciousness (Dr. David Hawkins) that range from 200 (world average) to the maximum calibrated in a human being 1,000 (Jesus or Buddha) and other known spiritual leaders, such as: Huang Po 960 , Master Eckhart 705, Balsekar 760, Ramana Maharsi 720, Santa Teresa de Avila 715, Nisargadatta Maharaj 720, Lao Tse 610, etc. I don't know how much Rupert would calibrate ...

[@atiqaziz1577]

There is no teacher who explains this teaching better. Thank you Rupert with lots of gratitude. Thank you for coming into my life

[@bparcej6233]

When I was 5, I experienced I am, and was thrilled. Now, at 70, I consider how ‘I am’ came into existence and am thrilled. ‘I am’ has emerged from infinite time and space, it’s particles and processes, evolution of life, transmission of genes from ancestors who survived ( reproductive processes), human time and socio cultural context, personal factors that shaped my life and perspective etc. F’n amazing 💫 the extraordinary ordinary

[@Sunlight-bi6ld]

Rupert is absolutely correct, truth doesn't come and go, it always stays, so therefis no experience of truth, but the deep understanding of truth (sthit pragya), not light understanding as we thought but deep understanding that will remove our ignorance. And we know truth nature subjectively we can't know truth objectively

[@allenmorgan4309]

If you sit in a room alone and experience the life force within your body.....that is enlightenment. The awareness occurs when we have let go of every selfish desire and just experience existence without exterior attachments.

[@TyDyck]

enlightenment is more about acceptance than searching or acquisition

[@yahdood6015]

Experience is the trip. This is the wild ride. The space within which experience occurs is unchanging and timelessly present. Soak up this brief invaluable ever-changing illusory ride while it lasts! It’ll evaporate as quickly and subtly as it came on.

[@jyotisinha8234]

I am…. That itself is coloured through life experiences and hence we forget our true self.. I am… who … by dropping all worldly perceptions that we gather through life experiences, we understand our true self… that’s enlightenment !! And living life with that knowledge frees us from all worldly sorrows !!

[@isaacgarcia2979]

Rupert is doing a great job, explaining to ppl what enlightenment is

[@baharam98]

What a simple, yet powerful explanation. Thank you Rupert. Thank you for these wonderful short videos that are packed with light. Your words light up in the "center of being," and not just my head as simply more words! Thank you!

[@Apokalypseplease]

"The I am, when it is relieved of the qualities that it borrows from experience." This is it.

[@genocanabicea5779]

Everyone is looking to experience being connected. But in truth you cant ever be disconnected. You are a spirit having a human experience not the other way around. Know it. Believe it. And it will catch up. Meditate often.

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

Close, I would say we are not a spirit as a spirit is a thing an object. We are being. We are closer to a verb than a noun. Nouns, objects and things are what the physical plane is all about. That is not our true nature. Also in order to progress during the awakening process, one must shed each and every one of our conditioned beliefs and see them for the falseness that they are.

[@aed1605]

Never been disconnected from what or who? Connection with God is something to be had, not something which has been the case since your birth. You can be disconnected, like Atheists are right now. Enlightenment is the Absolute Awakening and Realization of God. Anything else is cute 🐱🐣 🐱

[@genocanabicea5779]

@@aed1605 you are wrong.

[@aed1605]

@@genocanabicea5779 You’re far behind kid

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

@@aed1605 God, awareness, consciousness, life whatever label you choose it's all the same and everything is a byproduct of that. In other words God is all that exists and all is God, therefore you are all that exists and you are God that is why there can be no separation.

[@jamesdawkins5331]

I am is a mystery to those who have never truly experienced ego death. The experience is mind blowing and the understanding then is very simple. We are not who our egos tell us we are. The I is not the I. The me is not me. Only through surrender, putting down the sword of status and protection and understanding that that which we have fought all our lives to protect holds us in fear. Love and enlightenment awaits the on the other side. But every fibre of the ego will insist on the separate self identity- we need to realise we are nothing before we understand that we are the everything.

[@m_ae_x]

So beautifully and eloquently put within a conversational setting. Thank you for bringing these insights out into the world for all of us to experience.

[@Rogsie-p6l]

Enlightenment is the simplest thing, but people expect it to be some ecstatic experience, and so they miss it. The trouble is that there are altered states of consciousness which can feel the way that people hope that enlightenment will feel. If they stumble into these states they can then believe themselves to be enlightened and spend the rest of their lives chasing these experiences like spiritual crack addicts. Instead, notice what it is that is doing the experiencing.

[@yoya4766]

Or spend their lives making money from their hippie experience like Rupert.

[@andrejfranjic5059]

If you didnt experience it how can you talk about it?

[@isaacgarcia2979]

@@yoya4766 exactly😂

[@jcinaz]

There is a difference between the intellectual understanding that "I Am" refers to our true nature, and the "knowing" from personal experience that "I Am" is an awareness of being aware and that "I Am" exists without a body and without a mind. We are truly spiritual beings (beings of light, so to speak) temporarily inhabiting a mortal shell. And if you wonder "why" or "how," then you haven't experienced yourself in this state. Being "enlightened" doesn't *give* you any special powers or privileges, but it does eradicate fear, and with it comes a realization that all things are possible and that everything happens for a reason.

[@aum-shanti]

....................Rupert Spira is an international author, speaker and teacher of non-duality...............maybe knowledge but no concret experiences ...............

[@bandit2048]

Thank you so much for this. At last someone who has not profited from mystifying this even further and instead shows it for what it is.

[@Frooji-ps1xk]

When breathing, KNOW you're breathing. When sitting, KNOW you're sitting. When standing, KNOW you're standing. When thinking, KNOW you're thinking. When urinating, KNOW you're urinating. When pooping, KNOW you're pooping etc etc. From the Satipatthana Sutta (the foundations of mindfulness)🙏🧡

[@aum-shanti]

Bonjour. OK but this is just the first step ( important step but the first ). you have much more to discover / rediscover. The journey is far from over. I love you all. jean-luc. 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉

[@amyhaible654]

He is such a beautiful expression. Of what? Of what we all are, if we will forgive that we didn't know before but now we do. So simple. I am. And so the same with you...I am.. and then the next step...we are both the I Am. And then the law, "treat your neighbor as yourself" becomes clear. And what do we do with this? We realize we are both infinite, eternal beings having this experience together.

[@Whollysmokey]

To me enlightenment is knowing the I Am essence, but without our ego. This is where I feel ppl get tripped up bc they haven’t fully integrated all of their mind. Just knowing the I Am is the beginning of the process. Just my experience. ☮️ 🕊️

[@I-Am-Aware]

Another wonderful presentation, Rupert. Thank you for your tremendous efforts. I no longer "need" to watch your videos (as awakening has occurred), but I still love feeling the energy that you bring to your meetings. Blessings. 🙏🏻

[@NihilRuina]

You are a being that is having an experience. Step back from the experience and focus only on the being. You achieve this through meditation. The closing of the eyes, the absences of noise, of movement. Silent, sightless, stillness. All that remains is being, lacking experience.

[@kundaliniairport]

So close, so simple, so intimate.. As you are with yourself not expecting anything at all, drawing your attention deeper within your own self, resting in this choiceless awareness, the mind then sinks back into its source, which is this deep, silence found in the heart. This could be, what Ramana Maharshi calls, the Self. You are that. Don't move from that place, no matter what the outer or inner circumstances are or how they change and realize there is neither inner nor outer nor anything at all. Nothing is happening really. When this ultimate experience happens, you laugh yourself silly for you see the devine Lila and the purposelessness of all existence. There is no mind, only the light of awareness. Rejoice & enjoy. Freedom at last. That simple, really.

[@zootsoot2006]

Realising Rigpa is easy, Living Rigpa is hard.

[@muralidharankv169]

So you are enlightened?

[@Mac-m9n]

Then you have to go to work to pay the bills and eat and feed your kids 🤷‍♂️ it seems super simple

[@sugarfree1894]

This approach, without the preparation of the mind and body through silent meditation, will always be fleeting/obscure/partial/separate. That is why people keep going back to these events, buying books, etc. You can have it, do it, be it utterly under your own steam (and yes, I know, there is no 'you', etc etc etc). You don't need anything or anyone. You have your body, your mind, your breath, the privilege of choosing - you have everything you need. You already have it all.

[@littlewarcovers]

the joy of being is quite exotic to me, is something we usually don't notice until we do, then it's a WOW moment, and returning to it is kind of exotic, I guess if you could live in that state all the time (being enlightened) then it would become more subtle (less exotic until it just is the normal), but for someone who never experienced it I would say you will notice a big shift.

[@lewisliew6479]

Enlightenment is the recognition of the nature of your being. Firstly, we have to understand nothing is permanent, all things exist dependent on others, nothing dominants. Everything appear and disappear when conditions is right. This is the nature of your being.

[@jjrecon3024]

When one can remove all the add-ons imposed by the ego, then one is left with I Am. I have, I was, I Am and I Will be and do as Mother Nature intended in order to see Thyself beyond the physical eyes.

[@yiannakas2]

I was meditating, in which I was overflowing with love, when suddenly, I experienced a part of my consciousness leaving my body, I saw myself moving away from the earth and then becoming one with the whole. Then a sigh of relief came out of what I experienced and I returned to my body

[@citizenenak]

It's as though we're looking outside of what we feel which is impossible. Incidentally what we feel is bound to the idea of independent self, but in reality every thing in consciousness feels on some level I Am in the same way everyone (you, me) do. It cannot be any other way, I Am is everyone and everything.

[@kramnam4716]

What a lovely calm voice to listen to 🙏🏼💚

[@peterneumann7145]

Spot on. He recognises the source of not being . No difference between east and west cultures, clearly in both there exist great men. He is one

[@TheDeepSharePodcast]

Our favorite thing to forget is "being" is a present participle, which is used in forming continuous tenses. And this one is for the Verb to be. As Buddhism teaches, "Things are not as they appear. Deeds are done, but no doer can be found." This is why the goal of meditation is the non-thinking, ecstatic center. Not just simply the observation of thoughts, the separation of observer from the thoughts.. but that it's all simply the act OF observing. The observer is another thought form, 'albeit a persistent one'.

[@dommccaffry3802]

Patience of a saint

[@mokuho]

Enlighment is the recognition of the nature of your being

[@mattcharles8240]

Well said, that's it

[@Benny_000]

Yeah, to me Enlightenment is ego-death which means that you have realized you are actually infinite and not finite. Maybe this state of being will become normal and then I guess Enlightenment can be considered mundane? I haven't reached Enlightenment yet but I'm closing in and I know how amazingly wonderful it is to realize that I am infinite and eternal and that nothing real can be threathened. The awe that comes with this realization sometimes makes me want to fall to my knees. It's that powerful.

[@aum-shanti]

this is only the first step................ the journey is far from over..............( by my own experience )....................,

[@melchizedek3331]

Enlightenment is not achieved through an intellectual exercise but a vibrational alignment. The mind is for thinking; resonance in frequency is Knowing. I enjoy your effort, not an easy feat. All the best. 🕊🌎🌈

[@PostkarteausWien]

He is so great, such a talented teacher, I like him a lot! 🥰👏✌️

[@Herkimerdiamond]

Totally true!!!

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Don't you Love Him? What does it take for This Love to blossom from Within?

[@michaelkelly3401]

Notice the Energy that is spontaneously happening. I AM is the basic energy, the Tao, the force, vibration , etc

[@ellenrule3189]

Hi Rupert big hello and thank u for helping humans grow spiritually!!! In peace and love Ellen

[@Rome372]

When ' the person ' falls away and you ' see' directly it is a very very mindblowing experience that let me 3ctears flabbercasted

[@Edopriv1]

I believe that the purpose of our earthly life is simply to re-learn, recognize, and remind ourselves and others, that we are one, we are part of God, and one with God. Creation and Creator at the same time…

[@borisnahalka3027]

here is somebody who is talking about enlightenment without being enlightened and who never met such a being. so it is all theoretical. simple? yes. easy - no. why is it not easy? because of an I in the "I am". it is not easy to let go of this "I". you have invested so much in this "I", so letting go - is not easy. the "I" is constantly in a state of dreaming, therefore another name - awakening. Liberation - another name, what are you liberated from? you are free from the notion of "I". you are liberated from yourself. it is the last and the only liberation. qualities of experience - Vritty in Sanskrit. getting them out of the way is not enough. you need to get out of the experience itself out of the way. as long as there is "I" that experience anything, there is no liberation, no unity. subject - object - process of experience - does that look like unity to you?. if you are there in the moment of enlightenment, it is not enlightenment, it is just another dream.

[@arhansen85]

Perhaps the key is to undo the notion that we are our own projects. And the journey is indeed letting go that idea and embrace of the fact we AREN’T and never was a project.

[@Herkimerdiamond]

Enlightenment is to do Self-Inquiry as told by Ramana Maharshi. To dissolve the “I”-thought which generates all other thoughts and remain as the Self - pure consciousness which is “I-less”. Even I Am doesn’t exist in the supreme state. The Self is pure silence. The Self is God. To remain as the Self….that is enlightenment. 🙏

[@timeless4369]

Self implies an “I” therefore Self/Pure awareness/Brahman is the “I”.

[@timeless4369]

“I am I” - Ramana Maharshi Of course here he isn’t referring to the imaginary ego, he’s referring to True Self/Brahman/Pure Awareness.

[@Herkimerdiamond]

@@timeless4369 sure sure!!! But when one is in the state Ramana was….pure consciousness doesn’t say I Am… there is absolute silence…

[@aed1605]

True, the Self is God. God is consciousness. But we’re talking about God here, the actual, G.O.D. I’m tired of this non duality shit. Just Realize that GOD exists, my and your God, our Creator. Stopping trying to understand and know reality… Just… Realize God. That’s all you need to know, to do.

[@frv6610]

​@Phoenix maybe you are wrong?

[@runswithbears3517]

I wouldn't call any of the mystical experiences I have personally had (completely sober, and before I had any spiritual awareness whatsoever) mundane at all. They were the most profound thing I have ever experienced, though I agree that this experience was internal, and I was never "lacking it" or never had to "attain it", it was always there. But definitely profound, indescribable, NOT mundane. Enlightenment is obviously a loaded term, and I don't claim to be "enlightened" or even to know what the term means, but the suggestion of mundaneness I strongly disagree with. Mystical experience, enlightenment experience, these are peak experiences and that's why they can have such a massive impact on the individual. I found the best accounts of these experiences in Plato and Plotinus. The lady is right to ask the question. The spiritual path leads (or should lead) to spiritual richness, intense experience, yet wholesome and fulfilling because it comes from within the individual themselves. If it doesn't, then what are you choosing it for? "Enlightenment" is often seen as the end stage of the spiritual path, and to suggest it is mundane is, in my opinion, misleading.

[@davidbulger3716]

“ You is what you is and that’s all what you am.”

[@garymoore3446]

You are the thing your looking for!

[@timothygeorge2530]

The searcher is what is searched

[@Laxman_p11]

Sacrificing personality is very biggest hurdle here for one. but without giving up personality(filters) we can't see ourselves, this much i understood.

[@agucci]

Enlightenment is great! The enlightenment of the Law.

[@sheradski]

Rupert's 'I am' teaching is brilliant in English. However, in some other languages it's harder to understand - just because in some other languages there sometimes isn't an 'I am' preceding one's age, gender, feelings, actions etc.

[@shadr8994]

Many other languages have pronouns for "I am" that are simply "I" or "me," but they all point to the same "I am."

[@sheradski]

@@shadr8994 Thank you 🙏🏿 Do you have an idea how it would work in Turkish, when there's often no pronoun - ie no 'I' or 'Me' etc

[@shadr8994]

@@sheradski What about "Ben"? I know that this issue exists in Farsi as well, but this lack of pronoun usage is unique to colloquial Turkish. In written Turkish (though I am not an expert), the pronoun is still valid, I believe.

[@sheradski]

@@shadr8994 Thank you very much for your reply 🙏🏿 I don't know much about Farsi, but regarding Turkish, it's a suffix language; therefore much of the grammar is expressed by suffixes added to nouns and verbs. Even in written Turkish 'ben' often would not exist. There are other languages too, like Indonesian, Finnish, Hungarian and Mandarin where, I believe, there's also no use of pronouns.

[@shadr8994]

@@sheradski Well, in that case, they're all in trouble (:

[@kimcleveland8943]

You all are ahhhhmazing! I got so much wisdom from this comment thread. Thank you. Thank YOU.

[@theawarenessmentor]

It is indeed ordinary but extraordinarily so. Rupert you have an exquisitely artful way of expressing this ineffable message only equalled , I would suggest by the likes of Miranda Warren.

[@anitam7547]

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.

[@stelladonnelly2832]

Exactly ! The mind doesn't want to let go of it's identity.

[@anitam7547]

@@stelladonnelly2832 Sorry - but I don't understand your interpretation. The saying I used was in relation to the title of this video. I had an awakening experience years ago. It was not exotic - but it was delicious. Everything was just as it was before - except I experienced it differently. The weights/burdens were absent. Everything was easier. I was still in the same difficult circumstances - but my suffering ceased. Inner Peace is The Dog's Bollocks, the bee's knees, and the cat's whiskers. Peace first - all else follows.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Chop water, carry wood

[@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life]

Bruce Lee who was also was a college graduate of Eastern Philosophy used a similar metaphor when describing the martial arts journey. When you start out as a beginner a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick. Then during your training you learn all the intricates in how to properly punch using many different hand shapes and techniques, kicking is the same and you learn how to kick while maintaining your center of balance and rooting skills, etc. Over many years you learn so many variations to punch and kick for so many circumstances that when you reach a level of mastery a punch returns to just being a punch and a kick returns to just being a kick because there is newfound skill that the body has digested fully and there is no thought in the way to hinder you. You then operate from a place of trust and surrender that your body will know what to do when the time comes without any thoughts, panic, or concern.

[@saurav9382]

@@anitam7547 That experience could be just a trick of mind. Truth is in present. All the knowledge is in memories.

[@worldsarise]

I am. Just this. Just now. We can train the mind so that this is our default mode, instead of continual mental chatter, judgment, worry, and commentary. The mind will rest in a default mode of equanimity. When thinking or consideration is necessary, it will arise as necessary in an instant to meet the need, then pass away.

[@luis55ful]

Wow, simple, clear, but so great. Thanks

[@tisa1629]

Its simple...In the moment you understand a joke, at that very moment you've achieved enlightenment... It's the thought from the joke, the emotion in happiness and the action of laughter. The triune I AM which is Thought emotion and action have become one.

[@terri6854]

But that enlightenment wouldn't last very long (or else everyone in a comedy club would be coming out enlightened)

[@FUTURECREEP2PI]

I AM I is infinite consciousness AM is its infinite existence.. You are that I AM...

[@petiteklutzy]

The reason we sometimes feel like as the lady has said " I never ate the fruit"-- it's because our minds try to make the simple obvious "being" into some kind of super human experience to again build a tag of ego around it so that we can make an identity of enlightened person but ego seems not to do that..and it confuses the heck of the mind...mind can't take the very simplicity of it❤

[@NowhereNonduality]

Lovely, as usual ❤ Thank you, Rupert.

[@tanu4647]

I am CONSCIOUSNESS I'm ENLIGHTENMENT ❤🙏

[@Da_Xman]

The question that Self-enquiry addresses is: • "what is That which is experiencing experience?". This translates into: • "What is It that experiences and is immediately experiencing concepts/thoughts, memories, emotions, sensations and the immediate sense of being/existing?

[@gracev4186]

😊 Just say "I AM IS"⚡ And Call it GOD ❤️🎇🌈🪶💕 Grace Victoria 🦋

[@AngieHaze]

“I’m sad. I’m lonely. I’m tired. I’m a mother.” 😂 I’m sorry. I absolutely love this video, but watching it a second time… that bit just hit me and made me LOL!

[@ChristianCamarena]

Thank you for bringing me back to here

[@timothygeorge2530]

Everything is oneself

[@AmyMylet]

what can be only felt, can not be described exactly in words.

[@Masi.Capone]

Any sentence that continues after the words "I am" is of the ego, and we make all kinds of attachments over the course of our entire life, but the sentence "I am," is where there is no more ego. Going beyond ego is when you know in your heart, the answer to the question of who you are does not continue past those two simple words. Sometimes I say I am the source of the whole universe, and that's true of all of us, and very powerful, but "I am" is good enough. All of what is tangible in the universe is temporary anyway.

[@ivettea6358]

So Direct, So incredible ❤️, Blessings, Thank you (it Can take a while/it's ongoing)!!

[@freisein6554]

These days a lot of people run around with a deregulated nervoussystem. Fight,flight or freeze response. In these states they want to use a spiritual bypass, to not feel. Breathwork, cold exposure, the bottom up approach, working with the body instead of top down are at least in my own experience very helpful. To force yourself mentally into „transcendence“ creates a split and can take you further away from experiencing a natural joy and peace. I established a routine of breathwork, than cold exposure and after that sitting of 30 minutes, watching the breath ( Anapanasati) All these techniques are operating in the realm of „being“, beyond concepts. Conceptualizing is left behind.

[@kaitlinobrien243]

This cracks me up I love it so much!!! Rupert I love you! 🌻💐💕

[@stephenkaake7016]

I went through the enlightenment process, mystics talk about it, its dreams, visions, psychic abilities, objects moving, God speaking to me, going to hell, purgatory, God taking over my body, no one has any clue what this is like

[@KrishJayaram]

Enlightenment is nothing to do with the intellect! Some enlightened people/masters might be great intellects, great orators, well-versed in philosophies, street smart, etc but these are not the qualities of reality. That does not mean that my being is not real. Thanks, Rupert!

[@esthersquires8574]

Once we realize it’s not something we can search for. It’s as simple as deciding to be here rather than there.

[@bunberrier]

Like ordinary life, but two inches off the ground. Gathering wood, drawing water, building fire. Washing dishes can be a blissful sensory experience.

[@sirtom3011]

Thanks Alan….

[@user-vf1rj9dd4k]

​@@sirtom3011 yes, Alan watts amazing

[@allenmorgan4309]

The only thing to realize is that everything is the reflection of ourselves. Once we realize that our circumstances as well as every person we encounter is part of ourselves there is nothing else. Everything in our life is the reflection of our own self.

[@brawlpups3517]

The type of talk that allows many to feel they understand but few know. Not to be too critical though.

[@aum-shanti]

I AM...............that's all.............🤣🤣🤣

[@Coromo_tiger_23]

since we never lose true nature of who we are, it is hard to recognize that we already have it.

[@Tabascosause]

People are not forward enough. He explained enlightenment very well for people who believe they are more than human, or a sense of calling to a religion etc. This is a good direct video. Only issue is the truth. The reason myself and many others are expecting something more, is because we were never taught correctly by our parents because they were taught wrong. It's not that we have became some lizard being or that you have this secret knowledge. You've just accept life at some point to its realist concept and need to adjust to you're knew understanding. Western world was made like this. ADD and ADHD are personality traits if you dont like it monitor it. Learn tools for it. Same with every single emotion we have. We shouldn't take things if we can monitor it. We should don't have people around us that really want to help everyone wants to make money off something.

[@chitraisenlightened]

in response to rupert..enlightenment comes in degrees..when you finally (metaphorically) go beyond the body/mind space/time/causation complexs, beyond the waking dreaming and deep sleep states you will realize youSelf as Supreme Energy, sometimes called the Paramatman or Atman sometimes called the Pure I Consciousness Pure becaseu there is nothing, absolutely nothing but yourSelf..one of rupert spiras teachers sri atmananda, in his discourse *notes on spiritual discources* he explains that in order to know what the Atman/I principle is you have to remove all objects from the screen that is You..thats final enlightenment.

[@chitraisenlightened]

its quite extraordinary to realize exactly what you are.

[@randylayhey]

I think this is the danger's of stating it outright, is the mind latches onto these ideas and chases them, never arriving. When it's much better to strip away the qualities and point to the door which spira as a teacher shows.

[@chitraisenlightened]

@@randylayhey yes, well, now we have a bizillion wanna be gurus who think that noticing that they are awareness now think they are completely awake..id rather tell the truth and remind people that complete enlightenment is rare and most people wont get it..its something to work on with spiritual practices...

[@randylayhey]

​@@chitraisenlightened yes everyone wants to dress up as one (guru) lol. or "be" enlightened as a new ego. there is no ego. the whole teaching is that. That's the absolute truth, see theres almost something fraudulent if that's realized to then call yourself something else. complete freedom from identity

[@chitraisenlightened]

@@randylayheyi think freedom is identity with the Supreme Energy that we all are..the Supreme Self...thats realized in the beyond!

[@myscat]

Awareness is a subtle thing, it's not that easy to find. It is like a formless void within you but it is not truly empty either

[@yifuxero5408]

OK, that's a good start, but this is better: direct experience! No problem. Access "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir". Listen to it for 5 min per day for at least two weeks and enjoy the Sat-Chit-Ananda, the Transcendental Absolute, or Pure Consciousness "In-Itself". Shanti

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

understanding dependent origination is the best we can do , I consider myself to be a Buddhist