Is My Mind Preventing the Experience of Consciousness?

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@ArunPaul-Malaysia 11 ай бұрын

The fact that he caught the fog itself is beingness' impeccable alertness, it's awareness shining a spotlight, beaming at the mind.

@RestAsAwareness 11 ай бұрын

"The trying is just a very subtle way that king Lear perpetuates himself" : beautiful !

@heatherstubbs6646 11 ай бұрын

This was so helpful! I’ve been having the very same experience as Simon! He described exactly what I’ve been feeling. My mind is saying, “I Am”, but it doesn’t FEEL very “I Am-ish.” Thank you for your guidance Rupert. Just stay with it. Don’t try to make it go farther. I’m so close. That’s so encouraging. Thanks so much!

@plumeria66 11 ай бұрын

Yes. You almost have to not think about it and let being sneak in when the mind doesn’t know.

@heatherstubbs6646 11 ай бұрын

@@plumeria66 Exactly! Best time is first thing in the morning, before my mind is fully awake. 😉

@everready800 11 ай бұрын

Well I stumbled upon this video and have no idea what they're talking about 🤷‍♂️

@heatherstubbs6646 11 ай бұрын

@@everready800 Rupert has a lot of material on KZbin, and he uses metaphors that most of his listeners are familiar with. If you want to understand what he’s talking about, my suggestion would be to listen to more of his videos. The metaphors will be explained sooner or later. I think, once you understand the references, you would find that they make sense.

@nsbd90now 11 ай бұрын

@@everready800 Yeah, this one is kind of in the middle of a conversation after various words and terms and ideas have already been discussed and understood. There are plenty of other short more introductory videos where Mr. Rupert talks about "just awareness" as distinguished from the "objects of awareness" which include "thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions". However, those "thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions" produce an experience of being a "separate self". The ego-self, but they are actually just other objects of awareness like a sofa, or a cloud, or your computer. So, our Practice is first grasping that intellectually, and then slowly our self-identity starts to change and we no longer get entangled in the "thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions". The questioner here is talking about his experience of that process. Rupert will use the play "King Lear" as a metaphor all the time, as well as one using a TV/movie screen and projector.

@-Boundless- 11 ай бұрын

Mind prevents the experience of Consciousness no more than a wave prevents the experience of the ocean, or a movie prevents the experience of the screen. Upon closer inspection, is there even a movie, a wave, a mind?

@ddlynndesigns 11 ай бұрын

Tich Nat Hahn use to say: smile at your old friend as it arises as thoughts. Acknowledge that you know it.

@PredatorZzGaming 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful !!!.x

@ravindramurthy3486 11 ай бұрын

I just have one suggestion for the questioner: Mind is not preventing the experience of Consciousness. Nothing can prevent the experience of Consciousness as YOU ARE CONSCIOUSNESS IN YOUR ESSENCE/IRREDUCIBLE CORE. YOU CAN NEVER SHAKE OFF CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU JUST NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT FACT. The only answer is to clearly cognize that "mind" is not mind but consciousness alone. With the appearance of a thought, feeling or a percept - a "mind" comes into existence as it were, from the perspective of an "individual". Mind is simply a name and form given to an appearance in a state of duality. Ignorance breeds mind and knowledge "kills" that mind by establishing that mind is consciousness only. The knowledge to be clearly cognized is that: "mind" at no time is something other than consciousness. That knowledge rises in consciousness, made of consciousness (can it be made of anything other than consciousness?) and recedes in consciousness. The only way to see it as a Fact of LIFE - is to reflect on your dream experience. Do you have any question in your "mind" that all the elements of dream including mind (thoughts, feelings, percepts), matter, time, space, laws of the dream state drew their existence and reality from " I ", that principle of Existence/Consciousness? That "I" alone was the progenitor and witness of the dream state. In fact, that I alone is the progenitor and witness of the wakeful state also!!!

@wbaiey0 11 ай бұрын

Freaking awesome explanation. Love it.❤

@ravindramurthy3486 11 ай бұрын

🙏@@wbaiey0

@Rajaram-mr5bliss 11 ай бұрын

Amazing satsang. Such a beautiful pointing.

@ravindramurthy3486 11 ай бұрын

@@Rajaram-mr5bliss 🙏

@rkp57 11 ай бұрын

Consciousness when it is interested in anything seemingly other than itself is called mind ( and will be affected by it)...mind when interested in itself is called consciousness and will remain peaceful because that is its nature.

@scp234 11 ай бұрын

King Lear is taking off his last article of clothing, his shirt, but it's twisted and all caught up over his arm and now over his head. And he's trying furiously to tug and pull it off but it's keeps getting tighter. If only he would relax and unwind it and slip it off he would be free.

@jenmdawg 11 ай бұрын

This question and answer is so uncannily timed in my life right now I am unable to stop crying. Each and every time I am sincerely seeking I get the exact right answer. Without fail. But I have to be sincere and that’s hard because I WANT Peace to be on my terms again and again. It just IS. Right now I get this. Soon I will forget it. And be back.

@ravindramurthy3486 11 ай бұрын

Dear friend: You write: " I WANT Peace to be on my terms again and again." My suggestion: Please be very clear in your mind what is represented by the term "I" and "my" in your statement. If you have taken the "I" to be representing the conglomerate of your body/senses/mind - then peace is likely to remain a "pie in the sky" or will be temporary. This position is one of ignorance. On the other hand if you see "I" as the UNEMBODIED, IMPERSONAL REALITY of EXISTENCE/CONSCIOUSNESS, you will see YOURSELF as the very home of that PEACE that you are searching for. Infact, you will find that in your irreducible unchanging essence, you were/are/will always be that essence of ETERNAL PEACE. This position is one of knowledge. Then you need to cognize that YOU/I transcend both knowledge and ignorance and you will remain anchored in peace. To have a clear cognition of this and to "see" this as a FACT OF LIFE (rather than mere "intellectual" understanding/concept), personal guidance of a Teacher is needed. All the best to you.

@jenmdawg 11 ай бұрын

@@ravindramurthy3486 thank you. I am keen enough to KNOW what you are offering here. Like the questioner in this video - “i” get glimpses of “I” and it’s profoundly perfect and absolutely without need of anything. Then my mind takes hold again and dims the access. All I know - really know - is that seeking this is the most worthwhile pursuit (I know its not really a pursuit) there is because to LIVE in this body while awake is the best kind of life to “have”.

@searchingforsanddollars 11 ай бұрын

We love you Rupert❤ thank you 🙏

@thewayfarer1571 11 ай бұрын

Awesome question awesome response, thanks to you!

@Mindywright27 11 ай бұрын

Love this! I can relate. Thank you all. ❤

@katebeatham333 7 ай бұрын

I love the King Lear analagy. I'm happily John Smith most of the time now, but occasionally, out of the blue, the crown is put on and he reappears! I see how funny that is now. Thank you.💗🙏

@Rajaram-mr5bliss 11 ай бұрын

So much joy, no words to express my gratitude

@christophertaylorwebb9429 11 ай бұрын

A lot of beautiful people in this video, thanks Rupert and team

@simka321 11 ай бұрын

Even if King Lear’s suffering pushes his mind into such depths of insanity that he is tricked into believing that the only way out of being a suffering Lear is to imagine that he is really an enlightened John Smith, Lear will remain delusional until such a moment that the actual John Smith remembers that he is only playing at being Lear, and that “Lear” is just a character.

@nsbd90now 11 ай бұрын

"The screen is boring compared to the movie." lol! Finally! Someone said it! 🤣

@Tejas.Patil888 11 ай бұрын

When I meditate on the 'I am' sense, my attention moves from initially from body to a wide-open spacious presence. It's like diving into endless space with no clear limits, bringing a deep peace beyond the body. Wondering if others notice a difference between the 'I am' feeling and this expansive awareness. Share your thoughts!😊

@rickleitch1036 11 ай бұрын

You describe it well. I hear you. The 1st is a feeling( mind made) The 2nd is all pervading...its not personal...no identity I appreciate your invitation...your openess.

@Hellen511 11 ай бұрын

That was one hell of an ego roast- 'You dont seem very I am-ish to me '😆

@toribellum 11 ай бұрын

I realize the mind trying to unwrap itself is apart of the experience. It can be frustrating but also quite hilarious when understanding this is the journey and I tend make light of it.

@elizabethbird5929 11 ай бұрын

Making light/Light of it is the best part of it, and makes all of it, even the triggers, easier to navigate.

@toribellum 11 ай бұрын

@@elizabethbird5929 Absolutely!

@ultracalicokittycat 10 ай бұрын

"You don't feel very 'I Am-ish' to me, you suck actually"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😄😆🤣 that was great

@movepauserestore 11 ай бұрын

Enjoyed this, perfectly explained by teacher and student ❤

@gireeshneroth7127 10 ай бұрын

The mind takes its time to relent. For the time being you are the mind living its course.

@bparcej6233 11 ай бұрын

Ordinary mind is inextricably preoccupied with self…we must trust and enable our Cosmic Mind to carry us through this barrier…it is an act of faith that will prove itself. ( I ask for gradual changes in order to experience evolution…revolution is much too threatening)

@omsharadcs 11 ай бұрын

Everytime, everywhere he conveys INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING it is not bad because many are not aware of it,but from among the old seekers nobody asks him how to EXPERIENCE THIS ILLUSION OF THE WORLD AS ILLUSION--intellectual knowledge is already available in spiritual books shastras and even on KZbin. what is needed is way TO THE EXPERIENCE OF THIS INTELLECTUAL UNDERSTANDING-which he never talks about.

@levlevin182 11 ай бұрын

illusion to me is an ill being. On one hand, Spira is separating mind& being on the other hand, both are unified. Sounds like a law of 3. Happiness, joy & love.

@-Boundless- 11 ай бұрын

Look up “Transparent Body, Luminous World”. Enjoy 💫

@tuliprose2529 11 ай бұрын

I think I know what you mean. After listening to hours of Mooji I just can't listen very long to Rupert simply because he never explains HOW to EXPERIENCE the perspective of the TRUE - Self without the ego-mind's distractions and distortions.

@elizabethbird5929 11 ай бұрын

I don't know how actual 💖experience can be explained. Therefore, the saying, "Walk a mile in my shoes." For me, Rupert provides the roadmap, but I'm the one who must walk the road.

@youssefalaoui4286 11 ай бұрын

Do not look to resolve worldly problems in the world, but rather, resolve them in the truth of Reality experienced with awareness.

@blueapple9077 11 ай бұрын

A apple tree doesn't try to grow apples...it just happens.....

@frazerburns91 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Rupert

@Triton67se 11 ай бұрын

One has several modes during the day, all which are witnessed no matter what the mind says who "I am". You are being witness and witnessed shortly after - the witnessed goes in many shapes during a day

@shawnosborn8887 11 ай бұрын

You dont know anymore than anyone else. Isn't that wonderful!

@malabuha 11 ай бұрын

This is just The Being playing games with itself. It's all what it is

@Austination316 11 ай бұрын

But why at the moment when it’s also trying to untangle itself from the mind at the same time?

@malabuha 11 ай бұрын

@@Austination316 and it's serious 😅 I don't know why. Maybe because human mind is a nasty, unstable, but creative thing. Only humans want to escape it. I watched a documentary about lions and i thought i would never want to be a lion but then i realised, heck i'm human, how more dangerous or hard could it be? We're like racing horses, live under constant pressure and demand, because we don't know how else to survive, we are jealous, greedy, and plane dangerous to each others and our environment. Could the one being put a stop to human experience? We do it to ourselves. So, yes could be a valid answer. But living experience doesn't end. This is your experience, you can only be aware of your own consciousness. The same consciousness that is talking now to you. Did you know that? I think you did. It's funny that the conscious aspect of every experience is still very serious about it 😅

@malabuha 11 ай бұрын

@@Austination316 that's the game 😅

@erikrosenberg8989 11 ай бұрын

Is it possible to 'jump' into and out of John Smith and King Lear at will?

@awakenotwoke7949 11 ай бұрын

I think it's time King Lear and John Smith reconciliate and learn to live with one another as one

@musicmoments8510 11 ай бұрын

King Lear doesn't exist so it's not possible!

@siewkonsum7291 10 ай бұрын

*_"That which perceives"_* (ie One's True Nature) can't 'see' itself. It knows and knows not, thus it's All-knowing - the Teachings say. It shines or has to shine its light on objects and reflected back to itself to 'know' itself and all things the World over. Thus when you looks at an object - say a yellow flower, the yellow flower exists. But the flower is yellow b'cos "that which perceives", perceives it yellow, NOT b'cos the flower is yellow. Without *_"that which perceives"_* , the (object) flower does not exist, let alone its yellow color (phenomenon). "That which perceives" is the Noumenon (Cause) of the Phenomenon (Effect). Sighting the yellow flower is "you" or "I am" then. This the *_"Right View"_* of the dynamics (dharmalaksana) of all inter-dependency and inter-connection of all worldly objects & phenomena. 😊🙏🙇‍♂️🌷

@cavaturnagesh 11 ай бұрын

Read Astaavakra Gita, this problem and its solution are made very clear.

@thebaryonacousticoscillati5679 11 ай бұрын

You mean Ashtavakra, I'm sure. And it does, definitely.

@ghanem.sbaih87 11 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@mansamusa9684 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant.. :)

@JackieJiddo 11 ай бұрын

No no no, this is the wrong approach. In meditation every energy/perception that lives in the body comes forward so to speak and shows itself. When a energy/belief is clearly seen it reorganises, order is established. The last perception to be thrown in the fire of consciousness is the the perception of "me". So what he has to do is bring forward -into consciousness- that fog/voice of me. It is the bringing in awareness of every thought, also the thought of me that resolves it. Because if this voice that says "I am silent now, I am aware" is truly seen by you it can not help but disappear.

@elizabethbird5929 11 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you for that. 🙏🙏💖