Meditation: 'I' is the Name of Pure Knowing

This guided meditation is about: All experience takes place in the mind; there are two elements to mind: the objective element and the knowing element.
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[@doriesse824]

"What you're looking for is that which is doing the looking." St. Francis of Assisi.

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Love that 💗 Thankyou

[@Marco-sj4vo]

WOW

[@williamvarado1111]

Yes. Awareness looking for Awareness; looking at it; triyng to find it; not recognising it."

[@Noct343]

The path or the spirit guides you, call it what you want but there's no need to rush or worry. Go with the flow. Things will work themselves out. This is the spiritual path. I gotten very far just by trusting my intuition and letting things work themselves out within me.

[@jamesheldwein9907]

The clarity, the analytical and experiential guidance used by Rupert in all his talks, contemplations and mediations provide an opportunity for even the most scientific minded to finally embrace the Non-Dual teaching. God, spirituality or whatever one wishes to label it is no longer only available to the strictly devotional type.

[@alexandreabashia]

what's interesting about spirituality for me is that that it's like a science it requires to understand and really pay attention every detail so u better understanding whole meaning. before i thought spirituality was some kind of thing created based on beliefs, like any other religion. im very into it also im not blinded just by looking at it like science, only learning and understanding theory will not work, it should be experienced. so with all these awarenesses or knowing u are going to FREE yourself from the mind, in MEDITATION its like reading books and learning about love u can think u know what love is but unless u don't experience it u will never know

[@nsbd90now]

This is very good because within the first 10 minutes he is clearly defining what he means when he uses words like "sensations" and "perceptions". Like with the word "mind" you really need to clearly articulate what part of the human experience of reality you are referring to. Rupert Spira is like Mr. Existential-Phenomenology! It is absolutely wild how he is able to speak of such things so clearly and simply and in a contemporary manner.

[@loriandrade5759]

It must be done in silence and questioning the only presence there is to receive that beautiful, pure wholeness that we are craving insatiably.

[@lazaroortiz9546]

I have a great deal of trust to my master.. I absolutely trust him and Francis 😊❤️🙏

[@schoolofmasteryformindfull1417]

He has revealed, “The Kingdom of Awareness our Home..” God bless you Rupert 🙏

[@jozaliel]

The All Knowing I am. It is explained so perfectly here ❤ It isn't out there. It is all within. Just bring them together. I am that that knows I am that. I could go on and on. I am not tired any more and I have work to do so let me just say thank you and bless you. Thank you

[@rockyrai7314]

R S is a Magician. Bringing stuff (non material ) from unknown space in a mystical manner.

[@lawreence-5234]

🙏 💙 💎

[@serhatsuvaroglu7034]

We never find the "it". There is "just" knowing. 🤲

[@breayannawhiteoak9405]

This meditation is an effective and thorough journey of collapsing all objects’ apparent existence into simply knowing. It’s implications revolutionize our whole paradigm.

[@nivedithakamath9388]

Thank you Rupert 🙏🌟

[@DLBurggraf]

The substratum of every thought and feeling is the ever blissful Self.

[@ravijhirwal2073]

Sir could you plz tell me how's Sat is chit And Chit is sat is same Means how's Existance and aweness are same

[@oledeysisgutierrez2559]

Thank you Rupert!! God bless you!!

[@abutterflybreeze790]

Lovely immersion in the infinite grace of the Divine ~ thank you Rupert

[@paulawalker4808]

thankyou Rupert with all my I, of which I have just been introduced to (or unveiled), by you...so gently and simply... i have been so happy all day to have finally felt that and now i know.. :)

[@108lukas]

Me too Paula! What even are words at this point right?

[@Blodtrykk]

Thank you. Just what I needed.Very enlightening.

[@williammaxwell2239]

Thank You Rupert.

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Absolutely Love Ruperts clear precise meditations bringing our awareness back to the knowingness of knowing 💗

[@Jacadz]

So beautifully spoken. Clear and loving....

[@CactusLand]

Fabulous! So many insights, thank you Rupert.

[@Iinfiniteknowing]

Thank you Rupert

[@alexgabriel1835]

Beautifull, explanation. Thank you very much Rupert!

[@paveldytrych4442]

A real meditation 👌❤️

[@zakarimg]

one of the best videos I have ever seen in my life, Rupert you are a real master

[@parvatiswamy543]

Awakening vedio. Thanks 🙏

[@sharadha7957]

Wow, wow, wow. Thank you, Rupert Spira.

[@nejsmat]

bravo, super clair, lumineux.

[@makoa2104]

Wow, thank you Rupert!

[@shobhimuki]

Rupertji, I feel so much gratitude for your POINTING your meditations... They bring me more fully into MY OWN TRUE PRESENCE. .. More resting and anchoring in this field of PRSENCE I AM. I have been exploring this for a while now...n with your videos find my self engaging more fully in THAT WHICH I AM... Namaskar... Gratitude...Namrataa.

[@corinnemarie11]

pure, clear, inexhaustible

[@kishorchandradesai9306]

Thank you. Pranam.

[@luisalbelda67]

Thank you!

[@johannboeing-messing979]

Thank you

[@tencups2778]

Thankyou Rupertji❣️🙏

[@Jagombe1]

The Christian bible states this as, "the light shines in darkness, but the darkness comprehends it not". The light (Consciousness) that makes experience knowable is our intrinsic essence, but we hardly know it!

[@BillWest1]

Many thanks

[@naropamudra]

thank you rupert and thank me to know you

[@Noct343]

Rupert it's amazing how powerful women are at least the ones I've met Ive thought to myself how some women I've been with were so spirituality Intune and far ahead on their spirituality compared to us men like this union or peace they found within themselves that I'd never understand it's amazing there's very amazing people out in the world if you know where to look, I've been left speechless several times

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Adbhut Meditation Thanks gretitude DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad Ruperspira

[@carlavela7106]

Gracias ☺ 💖

[@iexistiam4145]

the observer is the observed

[@alberteinstine8845]

Thanx man

[@nn47777]

Thanks Rupi brother ❤️

[@wolfyboi2561]

I found my way here thanks to determined imagination!

[@mrjsneff]

There was a man named Mo Who said, "I know that I know" "But what is not clear, "Is what 'I' is here "When I know that I know that I know"

[@108lukas]

Lol That’s Fantastic!

[@xBaseFraQz]

❤

[@pfaunimaster523]

GOOD

[@gregnicholls8347]

It seems 'I' is a sound, a word given to the subjective sensation that accompanies all experiences. This subjectiveness is essential to protect the physical organism in the physical environment but with the evolution of language brain is trapped into ending the sensation in psychological space-time.

[@stephanaitch]

🙏

[@gireeshneroth7127]

I assumed an infinite mind posture and again from there assumed a finite mind posture and started living it .

[@durwhat]

I agree with Aeon tv comment. I is a thought related to body/mind. awareness is beyond.

[@atmannityananda-academia]

+SongOfCelestia Duality and nonduality is just words. While the ego energy exists in you the identification with body and mind is unavoidble. Awareness has nothing to do with the ego so to name the ego and awareness with the same word the ´I is unapropriate.

[@besacb9694]

There's is a simple reason that people use the same word I for the ego and the self. People are aware. They have a sense of I, i.e. that they ARE. But that light of consciousness is the Self. There is no higher self besides a lower self, there is no false self next to the real self. There's only the self. The ego borrows its light from the self.

[@durwhat]

BesACB Thank you for that snippet of wisdom Bes. The I will look into it. Ta muchly.

[@naropamudra]

thank you...or thank me...the same

[@williamvarado1111]

What are we referring to when we say: The knowing of it? Good question. The "it" is not there. It does not exist. All that exists is infinite KNOWING. Good talk. Thanks.

[@malabuha]

12:07 if i may ... a hint to help understand where Rupert is taking you. That to which he reffers sounds like the state when you faint. In between the state when you were aware, everything went out, you cant say anything about it because you were unconscious. That primal state of non existence, non awareness, darkness (not knowing). it is impossible to experience it. Only when you look back at it, that void, that time span when you were unconscios, is how you can see it. but you all probably already knew that LOL if you then look at it as death, you see why it has no dimensions, no existence, but by experience it gets its existens, it happens. Fainting happens, total oblivion of deep sleep occurs. Going now out of my depth i can conclude that it is the cradle of existence, pure potentiality, although in that pure state nothing exists. From that state everything arises and returns back to it. That line of thinking actually brings sense to everything for me. And it's dissapointingly simple. Because we all knew that already, only we were trying to escape it, thinking, i can not die, i will be forever. I am forever. Even if you do now go to the idea, hey i am consciousness, i am eternal, when you finally meet with truth eye to eye, and you know that the primal state of who you are is consciousness, you are looking at the non existence, total absence, a void, the darkness, not knowing, no awareness. That is who you are both as ego and as your true nature. It really zakes time to digest it once you see it. But it also makes perfect sense

[@SARVX_]

💖🌟✨

[@gregglockhart9551]

It is done unto you as you believe! The way you are referring to knowing here seems to me to be a program,a belief. Your thoughts are based on your beliefs. There is a witness to these thoughts and beliefs. It’s like a tape recorder,it doesn’t refute the content. Inner silence is necessary to go beyond the programming.

[@shadracpierre3456]

The funny thing is, I try as hard as I can, I cannot do it.... I can only witness him.

[@patrymilanodhan]

grazie...Sowingthewinds lui è bravissimo e io con l inglese intuisco cosa vuol significare ma...perdo dei pezzi xche ho studiato l inglese ma mai parlato grazie ancora

[@spiritlightpajic7299]

🌅Yes ☺️That l lS Not the finite h u m a n persona-lity that the un-enlightened s e n s e mind has formed out of the un-enlightened thoughts👁️YET lS The ONE and The Only lnfinite l AM or The L 🌅 i g h t of The PURE Unconditioned Awareness or God Consciousness 🙏 Thank🐦You☺️for sharing🎁Rupert 💖 Namaste🌈

[@shrinik1969]

It seems that knower even though ever present with unchanging quality of knowing...it misses objects ...like when i am watching a beautiful sunset, i dont notice certain thoughts. When i am endorsed in some thought, i mechanically drove my car from office to home without feeling sensations at my feet operating breaks or accelerating pedal. Did knower miss noticing certain objects? Can it be overwhelmed with objects of all type in large volumes?

[@douglasmitchell953]

Watching a loved one die of Alzheimer's disease demonstrates to me that awareness or knowingness does dim, does change and become less clear and is body/brain dependent.

[@ramitube69]

The content of awareness changes

[@oolala53]

A body/mind does not have to recognize the body/mind or remember its experience, know others, and interact in the world in the same way it has, etc, in order to experience thoughts, perceptions, and bodily sensations. What you saw declining is not the awareness being talked about here. At the same time, it must have been hard to see these changes to your loved one and your relationship. Warmest wishes.

[@marjoryrainey287]

@@TMACMACHINE that's informative! Thanks!

[@atmannityananda-academia]

'I' and ' mine' is the name of ego. Truth or awareness has nothing to do with any personal or individual attribute. Is better to utilise other label for Truth because people use the I' for their body-mind identity.

[@atmannityananda-academia]

+SongOfCelestia awareness is not an I; it is not personal or individual. The I is used only to define an individual. I, you, we, they etc. are used to define persons. awareness is not a person, is not the individual. the ego is an illusion in the sense that is not eternal, it is not present in the three states of consciousness. but as long as the ego energy exists in us we cannot pretend that does not exist. This is false understanding. we have to practice a lot to dissolve the ego from our psych. we call this ego as I and people are used to this term. that's why for people who are identified with the ego it is not appropriate to tell them that awareness is the I.

[@atmannityananda-academia]

+SongOfCelestia let see it from another point of you. not only ego is an illusion but our body also is an illusion, yet we have to deal with it. we cannot ignore its existence as long this body is alive. the world is also an illusion but we have to deal, we cannot pretend that does not exist although it is an illusion. the very fact that we are incarnated in this world and in this body is because of ego. if we had not ego then we would not be here in a body. Thus, to say that ego is an illusion does not make it disappear in a moment. only those who have dissolved the ego totally and are established in their essence, (awareness) only those are free from the ego and the world is an illusion. for the rest who have an ego the body and the world are real although they may negate it mentally.

[@atmannityananda-academia]

+SongOfCelestia one more thing very important is that Spira says that ego is only a thought which is totally absurd, it has nothing to do with what ego is. If ego was only a thought then very easily we could dissolve it, but it is not so. Ego or I is a field of energy crystallized in our psych from time immemorial and its main aspect is lust and desire. Anger, fear, greed, jealousy etc.are all energy, and is the ego energy itself that assumes these forms. So, ego and anger are not two different things or two different energies; they are the same ego-energy that like a chameleon modifies according the circumstances as pride, lust, desire, passion, anger, fear, depression, etc.

[@atmannityananda-academia]

+SongOfCelestia i heard the teaching from whom? If you want a profound treatise about advaita read: this article elmisattva-nonduality.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/sadhana-chatushtaya-four-means-of.html and this book of Adisankarcharya Vivekachudamani.pdf www.vivekananda.net/PDFBooks/Vivekashudamani.pdf

[@Curiousnessify]

+AeonTv You keep mentioning ego, if its just an illusion in your experience, then i would say you wouldnt feel the need to mention this ego illusion so much. therefore i can guess that what you speak of is something you read somewhere and its not your direct experience. why did i say all this? certainly not to waste your time or mine , i would just encourage you go come to your own conclusions by contemplating your subjective experience, with the help of the direct pointings like the ones in the video and many other of his videos, mainly using the questions, am i aware? .. and going to the experience of that and staying there as long and as frequently as possible. another similar n good teacher is Peter Brown - radiant presence. good luck

[@annamariapaola1]

.......the 'it' is not there....

[@oolala53]

Is Rupert using the term "mind" here in the way he always has?

[@zain4019]

Yes, Rupert definitely does. He would simply say “awareness”, or “knowing” now.

[@oolala53]

@@zain4019 Just interesting because it doesn't seem to be the way his teacher would say it. (I have been going to his teacher for years.) Still very astute.

[@Ahmad-ps9zh]

Who's his teacher?

[@oolala53]

@@Ahmad-ps9zh Francis Lucille.

[@willychi9315]

Rupert if there is a sound in the world that i dont listen, =i dont know it, it doesn 't mean that its not there? Or does it?, i may be fooling myself into linear thinking but isn't it a fact? By this i mean there could be just a sound in the world and not the knowing of it, as i in this case am not even perciving it, nethier knowing i'm perciving it. I'm kind of lost here plese help me, if not rupert someone else plese help me here, i shall meditate on this or contemplate maybe.by

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Wonderful.wah.wah.Aha.Aha.bahut.bahut.gretitude.abhar.Dr.Rupert.Spira.thanks.

[@jixie_93]

I was just having the same question...if a deaf person is in the room with me and can't hear the sound does it not still exist? etc...it's one year since your comment. have you come to understand/know this? please help me understand if you have 🙏 thank you....

[@patrymilanodhan]

perchè non aggiungere i sottotitoli in italiano grazie...

[@satsumamoon]

Why isn't your comment written in English so that I can understand it?

[@amayaaum9792]

says "why not add the subtitles in Italian? Thank you." But maybe you knew that, since your question is similar. :-)

[@Sowingthewinds]

+patrizia milano Penso; per tradurre, uno deve capire il soggetto, altrimenti la lingua stesa perde il senso della comunicazione. Comunque ho visto video's tradotti simultaneamente...cerca e trovi KNOWING helps to shine. Thank You go to Mr Rupert Spira Namaste

[@nuvolenelcielo]

+satsumamoon really? because the world's police hasn't outlawed all cultures yet...

[@junevandermark952]

People that are starving to death, are not prone to meditating, because they are too busy trying to find food to in turn keep the material bodies that they inhabit, alive.

[@25jmontoya]

Thank you Rupert

[@allowingful]

Thank you Rupert.