God Is Self-Aware Existence

A man wants to know what he has in common with his cat, a subatomic particle and bacteria.
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[@kieranbrown3492]

I always come for the attractive flowers but always get distracted by the guy talking in the chair

[@TaxemicFanatic]

🤣 There's no difference it's all one.

[@108lukas]

Lol

[@pvgopiabnle]

But the real flower is in the chair no? 😄

[@MM-qb9is]

So funny! My immediate impression was the picture and the bright flowers flushing Brilliance in the space. But the beauty, then divine yellow, the divine flower (a flower - what is that delicate complication, that exists,) as well as the toothache, is you... . Love!!!

[@djdollase]

Lol

[@easypeasy26]

I admire Rupert's patience, what a beautiful human being.

[@chormpan2104]

dats that stillness of pure awareness

[@consciousawareness6020]

*God is self-aware consciousness enjoying and knowing Itself. Thank you Rupert, true and sensitive pointing as ever!*

[@dexx44]

We are That.

[@johannadiabone1055]

master class. this must be watch in prime time on tv, instead the rubbish television in this times

[@darrenfromla]

ive watched a whole lot of rupert vids and for my money this IS THE ONE. Existence is fundamental to every conceivable thing. Without existence nothing exists! Existence is aware of itself. How do we know this? When I contemplate existence that is existence contemplating itself! It demonstrably is. Existence therefore is alive and conscious. It is self aware being from which all things borrow their existence (shining as everything) God.

[@Aubreythepainter]

perfect

[@TheParakeet1999]

Beautiful ❤

[@quakers200]

Without existence nothing exists. First if I am not convinced that there is no thing. The idea of nothing seems clear until examined. After all time is a thing and space is a thing so we would have to eliminate those things. . To exist is to stand out. To not exist is to not stand out. To not exist is to be outside of time and space which just happens to be where God was before he created the universe. There must be a frame of reference even beyond time and space.

[@db-333]

Ruperts face lol , he's a patient man!

[@edensavage8934]

Well, he is there to teach people.....just because you understand it does not mean others do too

[@mesmerical11]

Another layer peeled from the onion of my ignorance. I am constantly astounded by this teaching.

[@charlesrcoon]

Our peace and happiness depend on the grasping of this simple teaching: Existence has objects, objects do not have independent existence. Consciousness-only understanding seems to be emerging...

[@No-oneInParticular]

Oh man! I loved the way Rupert left the patronising quantum physics 'lecture' from the questioner as if Rupert would have no idea about it; until right at the end and then showed that his understanding is far superior simply by just telling the truth in about 8 words. No boasting or ego, just, the truth. Great answer.

[@bethanienaylor]

You got all that from that. I didn't get any of that from that. Just saying. Like bruh you assumed the questioner's thoughts, maybe even Rupert's thoughts...like man how did you get all that from the video and I didn't pick up any of it. Maybe if I watch it again...but see I did the same thing because while I was watching the video, I was thinking Rupert's patience was wearing a little thin with this questioner and was wondering how someone could be so clueless....but none of that really happened. It's all my interpretation. Maybe he is feeling patronized or impatient in the video, maybe he's not. But when I watched the video, all I see is a patient man answering a long question lol. Both of those descriptions are subject to disagreement as they are but from my own perspective.

[@tangotangoh]

Many people are in the same boat yet he's there in front of Rupert by Grace. That indeed is good fortune.

[@LenkaSaratoga]

Sheer brilliance! Best explanation of what God is. There goes my atheism hahaha

[@juliecloutierchannel]

One of the best description that I have heard of isness, beingness. Beautiful, it conveys the essence of everything.

[@jatindarpaul5396]

It's the screen and movie thing. You can play any movie with any number of actors or things and keep playing still the SCREEN remains the same and unchanged. Screen is existence and consciousness and movies played are objects. They (whatever appears on screen) exist because of Screen only.

[@12gotJesus]

The screen is consciousness

[@bethanienaylor]

​​@@12gotJesus that's what he said, *it just looks weird

[@cristiandececco]

The Absolute doesn’t know that ‘It is’, only when the knowledge ‘I am’ spontaneously appeared it knew ‘It is’. Nisargadatta Maharaj

[@jairdanmeir9341]

One could just as easily say that All the absolute knows is it's is-ness. Otherwise there would be no thing there to recognize the I am.

[@mish63pa]

This is a “just wow” one! Thank you thank you thank you!

[@iqtestfree]

Clear,simple and powerful information this man share right here . I appreciate this wisdom very much. Thank you Rupert

[@phillipadams4691]

The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging.

[@ScoreGetter]

Rupert is complete Godliness. Respect to him

[@user-lu9hq6jv4v]

Perfectly put💥!

[@MrPrayuda]

"..please say yes.." Hahahhaa

[@guivnoronha]

dear lord, the questions... Thank you, Rupert!

[@desertportal353]

Just remarkable. Thank you both for this gift.

[@DLBurggraf]

We think of a dream we had last night as unreal ....but all thoughts are little dreams...the first thought is 'I am this body'...from this all other thoughts proceed...you are Pure Awareness. In Awareness there are no strangers...treat others as you would be treated.

[@davee.4847]

@@usr909 because awareness is undeniable

[@DilbagSingh-sp2yp]

Ah, that's it, beautiful evening, now let's have some tea together D graf, love you.

[@quakers200]

Does not pass the smell test.

[@leelanjoy]

Banal and brilliant. Thank You !

[@mencopieters8661]

Really beautifull, powerful words, very clear, lot of respect for the teachings. Please continue Mr. Spira, may your words be spread out. Sat chit ananda

[@cristiandececco]

Meditation means to ponder or have your attention focused on some object, image or ‘mantra’. You do so till what you have held in meditation disappears or you can say you the ‘subject’ and the ‘object’ merge into a unity. When you ‘just be’ or are in the knowledge ‘I am’ only, you are both the subject and the object of meditation. It is the ‘being, meditating on ‘being’ and resultantly both cancel out each other and what remains ultimately is the Absolute. Nisargadatta Maharaj

[@helioschan7705]

The assumption implicit in the question is that human beings are aware. Human beings are not aware; only awareness is aware. Therefore there is no distinction between a human being, a cat, a bacterium, a particle, or a string.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@Moh Siy a human body is an object of awareness. Are you are aware of the body or is the body aware of you haha

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@Moh Siy it's more like without awareness there's no brain, thought or appearance of a body. Although the content of consciousness has no existence outside it's context, no particular part of the content is responsible for the whole. You are saying your brain and body are creating the entire universe? Are you crazy haha

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@Moh Siy you say awareness is beyond brain, then why would it be dependent on a brain if it's beyond it? Awareness doesn't necessarily have the limitation of being human, since its also distinct and capable of being independent of any content. The content changing all the time through the various states, waking, dreaming.. deep sleep. But the brain probably has some role in modifying perceptions. Since if its injured or effected by electronic instruments it can cause a change in perceptions.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@Moh Siy that's quite well said. What you said reminds me of the concept of Niguna Brahman and Saguna Brahman. Saguna Brahman is like your idea of human awareness only its really the totality of cosmic manifestion and constantly in a process of creation and destruction, in flux. In that sense the individual brain is part of that and liable to change, along with perceptions and so on. Niguna Brahman is like your concept of non human or pure awareness, without change or fluctuation and therefore unchanging even if brain or perceptions change. You're right that ultimately (in practice) its not even possible to make such distinctions between the context of awareness and it's content, the cosmic manifestation, they're a seemless whole and only provisionally separated on order to get rooted in pure awareness. One very useful distinction here is Adi Shankara's conception of the four dasanams. In particular the distinction between Vivartha-Vada and Ajata-Vada. In Vivartha-Vada one sees the world as merely apparent, but in Ajata even that's not possible.. no conceptual distance at all between perceiver and perceived is possible. Ramana Maharshi for example was explicitly stated to be teaching from Vivartha-Vada even though he himself was in Ajata this was written down in a book by a close disciple and Ramana confirmed it.

[@michaelmcclure3383]

@Moh Siy you are really complicating it but i think you're saying the same with different terms. This can often be a semantic issue In the 90s i used to see a sprintual teacher called Ramesh Balsekar, disciple of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Maharaj used two terms, awareness for Niguna Brahman or Brahman without attributes. And consciousness for consciousness of apparences Saguna. It was quite a koan in itself to untangle. Ramesh at that time used the term Consciousness at rest (Niguna) and consciousness in movement Saguna. Just to point out its one process, one Self When i met him I'd had an initial awakening and he said it was what Ramana called the I-I (No me in between) Four years later that led to a dissolution into the Ground of Being which was like going through the fear of death and disappearance into the deathless. It was an agonizing though liberating process. The order is this Separate self. I am ao and so 1-I or Saguna Brahman.. Awareness witnessing apparences. And Niguna Brahman the dissolution or Awareness without content as no mind, body no universe nothing yet complete in itself without content. The unborn and Deathless Saif beyond description. This is why Ramana says abide in the I-I or Nisagadatta says abide as the I am. Because it's the same Self, Brahman in manifestation or empty of Manifestation Saguna Brahman leads to the Niguna state prior to consciousness of apparences or content. This is also the whole idea of traditional advaita. Abide as the witness and it'll naturally take one to the source since its already the Self or Brahman. Yes i highly recommend looking into Shri Shankara's four dasansms. It's extremely clarifying. It shows the whole spiritual process including karma, bhakti and jnana yoga. Everything fits in that map. Buddha's teaching and advaita fits in vivartha-vada for example... The other system thats worth looking into is Shri Vidya.. the origin of the tantric system To cut a long story short in 2002 i went to a place in India a Nadi astrology center and i had a reading.. they talked about what happened in terms of the kundalini which i wasn't familiar with. It's is more part of the tantric teaching. They said for example that this is Amrita.. which means Deathless.. the happiness of the deathless Self.. basically which comes once the Rudra Granthi has been unwound. Now in Shri Vidya they have three Granthis or knots. Rudra Granthi when undone is like a jump into the beyond. Where consciousness realizes it's independence from form and manifestation of all kinds. Vishnu Granthi is realization of Love free of attachment, or happiness without a phenomenal source. Its a great awakening in itself Brahma Granthi is disidentification of one's worldly or sectarian identity so one can freely enter into true bhakti

[@simonhitchenk9]

Exquisite explanation, as ever

[@susheelapanekat7756]

Thankyou Rupert 🙏🙏

[@jdncoke2]

that is one of the best of his vids i have seen

[@Paine137]

Almighty Unicorn hath blessed thee with His Great Hoof. Congrats, everyone!! Have faith!

[@SandraWhitaker123]

very well clarified! Bravo

[@Mindywright27]

I wish I could see this cat guy. I have a caricature of him in my mind as he speaks and it’s killing me! 😹 In seriousness, I appreciate his question and Rupert’s exquisite response. ❤

[@rachellane2836]

So well explained. An artisan of words. 🙏

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

So once we die our consciousness go back to pure being, bliss , pure knowing . ?? After all the NDE,s I’ve seen I would have to agree with that with my current perspective? Any thoughts 💭 thank you . It’s all Jesus isn’t it , pure love . Makes me feel better thinking this ,although knowing I prefer .

[@ivettea6358]

"tis as easy to create a button as a it is a castle..." Abraham Hicks :) Wonderful! Great Sacred 2021 Blessings All, Thanks again and Mucho Love Rupert

[@glossy81]

I sat in my backyard with a friend, I stood in his line of sight and asked if he was sure that I exist, he answered, "yes I see you and I am self aware and I see you, so you exist." I then walked around the corner so that I could not be seen and asked him, "can you now prove that I exist?" He could not. At first I assumed that this meant that I exist regardless of another's perspective, then I realised there is no proof that I exist .

[@sonkeschmidt2027]

It means nothing can prove (directly) that you exist. Your existence is a fundamental part of your existence and can therefore not not exist. Your existence is self evident, it can't be proven as it can't not be. How could you doubt your existence, without existing to doubt it?

[@glossy81]

@@sonkeschmidt2027 very true. Now the only thing I know is that I'm not asking myself the right question.

[@sonkeschmidt2027]

@@glossy81 what is the right question?

[@glossy81]

@@sonkeschmidt2027 We all share the same world but perspective (and the knowledge of existence) are always isolated within the 'self'. So for a long time I thought the question was, "what purpose does this form of 'being' serve for the development of my consciousness?" But this question relies on the presumption that consciousness continues after the physical body we know dies. This cannot be answered while we are still in this form, so all I am left with is, "why am I aware of the now?" So maybe the only question to ask of yourself is, "what will I do now?"

[@sonkeschmidt2027]

@@glossy81 what will I do now is seemingly paradoxically, as you ask the future what is happening now. What is it actually, that you are doing? And to resolve the paradox, you are thinking. Thought is the observation of will while it slowly manifests into action. From the brain into the muscles. You "will" your thoughts, your dreams into existence. So what is it, that you want most in your life? What is it that is waiting to be expressed into movement of muscles?

[@HeatherKMB]

That's some beautiful stuff right there!

[@anllpp]

Absolutely brill

[@claudelebel49]

It helps to have had a physicist as a guru :) Beautiful!

[@sandstorm6605]

Oddly enough, as someone who lost a a cat too soon, this was extremely reassuring. I know he was pointing at every level of existence, but unknowingly I ended up needing to hear the bit about the cat tonight. I’m glad I stopped by. Or, did it stop by me? Probably both.

[@anusarikashree6109]

I don't understand one thing, how can we remove existence from a thing, when some one or animal or a thing goes out of existence, where does it gets resolved to? Back to existence? But how can we know it?

[@radicalhonesty3628]

I pray magical blessings in the lives of myself and my true love (that I am yet to meet). may him and I, both experience magical transformation and new levels of enlightenment and bliss... and may that lead us to each other, very very soon! and may you, as well, beloved reader, be blessed, too...

[@heartsutra123]

God needs the mind to know objects. God does not need the mind to know itself as pure being/knowing.

[@TajRocks1]

The Infinite is the heart, the abode of the Infinite. The Infinite can only be felt by the heart not grasped by mind. It cannot be confined to mind but heart.

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

So we may say that existence is the greatest common factor of all objects and at the same time consciousness is the unlimited “empty space” in which every thing exists, every thing is known and out of which every thing is made.

[@WarrenChamberlain-mg6ut]

Where os this being located if it can be located?

[@grahamrobson998]

RUPERT SPIRA RUPERT SPIRA RUPERT SPIRA PEACE AND LOVE

[@bhbae1]

As soon as I heard the questioner guy’s voice, I realized that he just tossed this question to challenge Rupert with his knowledge.

[@WillDanceAlone2U]

Mr Spira's unseemingly unlimited patience to answer the follow-up questions by "the-guy-in-the-crowd-with-the-quantum-question" that bare absolutely no reference to what was just explained is like watching g-o-d pushing itself to the edge of the seat with its unimaginable patience, knowledge, wisdom and love towards itself. As for me, far from patient, I felt like getting into my phone screen and shake the man in the audience into his senses.

[@moniquemader68]

Me too 😀

[@ovidiubarbu3326]

Words are like natural numbers. It do not exist but we need them to communicate. So as long we are bound to them, believe that they can describe reality we are going to contradict others. Think so.

[@Chosenkid444]

Aye man good video

[@noelk2751]

This is the isNESS!! :-))

[@NewNow4u]

All those things are all in his mind

[@jairdanmeir9341]

The truth, once recognized is self evident. All he has to do is practice different ways of explaining it. He has improved greatly in the last 10 years but there is nothing to "remember".

[@NewNow4u]

@@jairdanmeir9341 Yes agreed thank you, My statement was about the man asking the questions. My fault as I did not state that. Though all thoughts are of the thinking mind. I understand it is about the awareness of that, the thoughts and questioning where they come from.

[@Phoenix-tv4gb]

Agreed, stillness the silent watcher that watches your breath your thoughts body activities etc is Divine Father 🙏 be still and know that I AM God 💖🕊️💖

[@kkoz474]

First he says that existence cannot disappear then 2 minutes laters he says that if we remove existence from the glass of water nothing remains... im confused

[@easypeasy26]

It's just an example, existence is always present. He's just saying if there was no existence, there would be no glass of water. As long as there is existence, then anything has a possibility to become.

[@kyyah2]

existence has objects objects do not have existence - simple analogy

[@satnamsandhu5685]

So if I am self-aware 24/7 then I am with God 24/7. WOW

[@HolgerUs831]

"I and my Father are one"; "I am the Lord your God." I who?

[@satnamsandhu5685]

@@HolgerUs831 who am i? I am you..

[@HolgerUs831]

@@satnamsandhu5685 Show me.

[@bza069]

Actually God is you 24/7 whether you realize it or not ! wow.

[@satnamsandhu5685]

@@bza069 no its not! God lives in the sky!

[@artofunk]

🙏🏽

[@cctoutlemonde7816]

Does flower say I m too?

[@Nothingman88]

Ahhh, the challenge of putting into words the ineffable... let alone comprehending the description.

[@gretanavarauskaite2904]

❤️

[@spareld]

1:11 PM

[@anchalbansal7486]

Does the flower know that it is ( that it exist ) as we do?? Please answer anyone who knows..

[@WarrenChamberlain-mg6ut]

It's possible

[@Veneda1]

There is no way to know for sure because flowers do not speak, and I don't want to put words to their mouths. We know for sure that humans have knowledge of self-being.

[@citizenenak]

You cannot know non exhistens. This is duality still yet. When the self is gone exhistens blossoms then turns in on itself. Repeat.

[@johnbrowne8744]

Wow! However, I still would like to hear Rupert's opinion of "self awareness" in sub atomic "particles", or any so called inanimate thing. Or, take a character in a dream. It has existence in your dream, but is it self aware? Does it dream too? And if so, are the characters in its dream, self aware, and so on. Is every "thing" self aware? Maybe not like we are but in different ways in consciousness? Is self awareness the same as sentience?

[@johnbrowne8744]

@@usr909 Hi. No, you misunderstand the question. A character in your dream is real only to the "you in your dream". When you wake up that waking you realizes that dream character was not real. Understand? You do it every time you dream then wake up. If every "thing" is aware in consciousness, is the dream character thing aware? Simple question. Or heres simpler way to ask my question. I have real bear and teddy bear. Both are things. Are both aware? Can't make it simpler than that.😊

[@johnbrowne8744]

@@usr909 So, a teddy bear is self aware? Okay.

[@johnbrowne8744]

@@usr909 Yes they do, but that was not the question. This texting thing communicates poorly. Is the teddy bear self aware? You are self aware whether in my mind or not. Does the teddy bear have that experience, like a real bear does? Or, is it a different experience and if so, is that what we call self awareness? These are not trick questions. This is what I would ask Rupert. This is what the questioner tried to ask Rupert.

[@ananda224]

@@johnbrowne8744 Everything has awareness, as awareness and what makes up that thing are inseparable from each other, however not all things have consciousness.

[@johnbrowne8744]

@@ananda224 Hi. Okay. What is the difference between awareness and consciousness? I think Rupert uses the words interchangeably. I think you're thinking about infinite vs finite consciousness. Terminology is tricky sometimes. We really need a Non-dual dictionary. Seriously.

[@kathleen9272]

Its all about the Father and thr Child, we did not need anything... so our father created a world for us , which was so perfect. But before the child decided to go ,did the the FATHER said what ever you ask i will give you. We have to remember we asked our Father for a play ground.

[@bethanienaylor]

Him: now let's go one step further than that. Me: let's not yet 😵

[@bethanienaylor]

And then he's like: I'm going to push you even further. Like whaaaaaaat 😅

[@MayaState]

Because it's non-duality.

[@mirelakondi]

❤️🙏👌💐

[@truckerfaye9002]

So basically God is everything.

[@satnamsandhu5685]

I am simply awestruck!

[@moonmarie3253]

no thing ness

[@RealMe-ju9hh]

Why is it that awareness can only know of itself through the cooperation of the finite mind. Isn’t the finite mind an illusion?

[@jamesgreenldn]

Does it need a finite mind?

[@claudelebel49]

Is the Mind finite? A thought, maybe, but the Mind? If there is such a thing as a finite mind, you should be able to say here it begins and there it ends. Maybe you mean brain which case, I have no clear answer.

[@TajRocks1]

The Infinite is the heart, the abode of the Infinite. The Infinite can only be felt by the heart not grasped by mind. It cannot be confined to mind but heart.

[@MayaState]

The mind is neither finite nor infinite, but that is not how we conceptualize reality, since we perceive the illusion through a part of the illusion.

[@nimim.markomikkila1673]

Depends on what you mean by illusion? The mind has existence, and in order to know seemingly-finite-things a seemingly-separate-mind is needed. Or to be more consistent with what Rupert just said: Existence has seemingly-separate-minds in order to know seemingly-separate-things:)

[@mrmoustachio3069]

It's limited by It's limitlessness. Solve'n'proof that one, nerds!

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

It doesn't disappear, it just no longer exists. Is this guy trying to say that when you blow the flame of a candle out, the flame still exists?

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

@Gil Monteverde Do you want to stick your hand in the flame and keep it there for a minute, then tell me it never existed?

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

@Gil Monteverde A flame is a chemical reaction, it exists as long as the 3 elements are there for it to keep the reaction going. It ceases to exist once one of the elements are taken away. This guy seems to think that somehow the "existence" part still remains. In what way can he show that it still remains?

[@ananda224]

​@@crazyprayingmantis5596 He is explaining a Buddhist concept of what existence means. Impermanence is the best thing to describe existence, it's a process of all conditioned things to be in a constant change, a cycle of coming into and out of experience. So, in the Buddhist terms, existence isn't something that is always there as the same experience, it is something that is in a cycle of constant change of becoming, then back again.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

@Gil Monteverde He's saying that when we say something "exists" say a human, then we die, where did the "existence" part go? He's saying that the "existence" part is separate. He says "when a thing disappears what happens to it's existence"? E.g when a cat disappears, where does it's existence go? He says existence cannot cease to exist, it cannot disappear. So he's saying that when you blow a candle out, it still exists because existence cannot disappear. I think he's talking nonsense.

[@vanda6171]

@@crazyprayingmantis5596 What's so hard to understand? He says what he means with the words you quoted. Existence doesn't belong to the object, existence is primordial. The Object comes out of Existence, when the object is gone, existence is still there.

[@bethanienaylor]

Did you hear that folks? The Mind Cannot Conceptualize It. Stop. Trying. To. Conceptualize. It!

[@bethanienaylor]

This goes for me too

[@desertportal353]

Why is there anything instead of nothing....

[@_SoundByte_]

I wish I could realize what Rupert is saying

[@pksaini4303]

He saying that as existent cannot change in non existent same as we cannot change our existent of consciousness in non existent.

[@_SoundByte_]

@@pksaini4303 yes, i meant experientially Thanks though

[@pksaini4303]

Don't mind.i thought u didn't understand what he said.

[@caveman4908]

@@_SoundByte_ The fact that you are watching this kind of talks, you are actually preparing yourself to understand it experientially, but you have got to give it time. Be patient and to put yourself down when you don't understand it. It's totally fine if that happens. It's part and parcel of it. You've got to get lost in a maze to understand where the right way is within the maze. I was once in your shoes, wishing i could experience it, and finally i did. What i can suggest is that u keep on listening to talks such as this, as long as you have the urge to keep going you will eventually experience it. Keep going ya, i did not stumble upon your comments for no reason, and u did not write this comment for no reason either. Replying to you from Singapore. This is no coincidence. It is all planned out. Trust the waves in the ocean, it will eventually bring you to the destination. I hope this helps.

[@_SoundByte_]

@@caveman4908 Thanks for the kind words ! Reading your reply from India :-P hehe

[@patrickgerard8011]

Good lord buddy, think out your question before taking the floor

[@sidraalibrahim1314]

He said existence is not something dead But won't we have to find sth that is dead to contrast it with ?! Any insights on why existence would be given the attribute ( self aware / alive / not dead ) ?!

[@MayaState]

Because it is always vibrant. It is always being.

[@easypeasy26]

Existence is just is, it does not have a beginning nor an end. It's eternally moving in and out, you can think of it like inhaling/exhaling. However, that is just a metaphor, it's more of a state of being, but that state of being feels like an eternal cycle of change. It's hard to understand it without experiencing it within that state of just being aware of ones own existence and nothing else. Basically within that higher state, existence is the eternal state of bliss that God is, however to us it feels like an experience of cycles. We and the universe are reflections of God's existence, the inhaling/exhaling of it's breath. This connection between God, and Us is how we experience each other through existence.

[@kyyah2]

you die, the spark goes and your body matter rots - existence has been removed and replaced somewhere else

[@citizenenak]

Boy he really lays it out. Speaking in the particular. That's it in a nutshell from a perspective of being. Not to put a fine point on it. Forgive me I'm a bit high.

[@donmilo4733]

God created all things for himself So he she may put the spirit within Gods creations and also experience all things. But we people think 🤔 and that creates the Edging out of God, we think there for. We are spirit created for the moment no past or future.

[@stpkopp]

That would have been a great question for Eckhart Tolle. Rupert is so serious.

[@pdvidz2266]

There is only existence.

[@matthewteal7134]

Good but still only theory

[@pg5755]

I wish he was my homie

[@kathleen9272]

The one who is lost is the child (creation) not GOD. GOd is remembered when the child is born AGAIN from.............

[@blackraider777]

so basically existence is Object class

[@VeresIoan]

Mr. Spira, I kiss you on your big, wise forehead. Thank you.

[@ronaldfeuer6748]

Rupert a man of infinite patience

[@Regan-travels]

This was frustrating to Watch 😂

[@tazzi2003]

The questioner annoyed me. I have work to do lol

[@malabuha]

Lol

[@RubenCastilloGomez]

The word, the concept of "existence" was not properly defined to begin to answer the question

[@chrizles]

he understood at the end it seemed so not all hope is lost

[@AuthenticSelfGrowth]

Same 😂

[@daviemorrison1110]

He made me laugh

[@ericplatt6884]

I don’t agree: Existence doesn’t exist.

[@mataafa1]

Eric Platt well “existence” isn’t the measurable part in the equation.. it’s “your” personal experience of a moment IN existence that you create moment to moment by your own conscious experience.

[@gireeshneroth7127]

God is God not at the same time. It takes God to be God not.

[@chrislaro1396]

there is NO meaning to life - only PURPOSE. Stop thinking about a meaning and find a purpose and it can only be to serve god, goddess and the great mystery. A'ho. But oh, if you just want to be a suburban plumber, so be it. Be a purposeful one when u fix the pipes.

[@mantralibre1367]

God is absolutely NOT completely self aware. It's the point of human existance, actually, to make him such.

[@jacknilsson8767]

Sounds like pantheism.

[@janko6637]

I don’t think you should call this god

[@donmilo4733]

That is ness he is talking about is the father Jesus talks about in the New Testament

[@salvadorambrossi9716]

Consciousness is limited by the perception of the body

[@NevillesRightHand1905]

That doesn't make consciousness limited, rather the perception ability of the body.

[@mikefoster5277]

@Salvador Ambrossi The human mind, which is a localised limitation of consciousness, might be limited by the physical state of an individual body through which it is perceiving. But consciousness itself is universal and therefore not limited to a particular physical body. You are right however to suggest that consciousness is limited; because consciousness must = its content at any given moment. In other words, consciousness and the totality of its current content are identical. But then there's a higher, purer awareness still - the absolute ground of all being - which is beyond even its own dualistic consciousness; non-dual in nature, unlimited, immovable and unchanging.

[@salvadorambrossi9716]

@@NevillesRightHand1905 yes, and the perception limitación of the body consequently limits the power of consciousness

[@salvadorambrossi9716]

@@mikefoster5277 thank you makes much more sense now🙏

[@NevillesRightHand1905]

@@salvadorambrossi9716, that was your original statement (just with rearranged words 😊). IMHO consciousness cannot be limited, as it is in all that exists. AND, before you go there, even "nothing" exists just by the mere thought of it.

[@pedrogo4903]

Particles??? Really ??? Are you shure???

[@bnj2669]

Now I want to know.. is the cat self aware, knowing it’s a cat as it is part of existence? 🫣