Meditation: Sinking the Mind into the Ocean of Awareness

Self-surrender and self-investigation are one; sinking the mind into the depth of Awareness; feelings are like currents in the ocean of Awareness; experiencing raw sensations of hands on chair.
From the Seven Day Retreat at Buckland Hall - 30th April 2016. For access to the full meeting click here: non-duality.rup...
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This is the end of searching and the end of all ideas. when we finally turn around and know who we truly are we find only enpty silent awareness.

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@@NylonStrings83 don’t quote me but either St Francis of Assisi or another Christian mystic perhaps said “(first)Love, then do whatever you want”

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I have just started meditating with Rupert online and learning about non-duality. I have believed that consciousness is prior to materiality for a long time. I haven't felt peacefulness yet because there are often deep fears lurking nearby. Sometimes I almost fall asleep which doesn't seem like a good thing.

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It’s Not a bad thing.,.Neither are You!

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Makes me cry watching this. I want to say something else but I don't know what I can say. I don't want to say anything I just want to stay here.

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You Are Here… Now. Always….

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"the waves cannot find peace and fulfillment in another wave" :)

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The musician name is at the end of video

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Dear Rupert, thanks for taking me in your sub to absolute stillness at the bottom of the ocean. But how long can one stay there? Doesn’t it get boring after a while?

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I have found peace in music ..

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I'm certain Rupert would not say we must not grieve but I wonder how it fits with awareness...?

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Awareness cannot be aware of itself purely without objects because it is always shining on objects. Even if you were in the quietest room in the world your bodys natural sensation for example is still in awareness it cannot be isolated. Awareness looks but it cannot see itself. Becuase ultimately It is formless. You would have to keep going back and back.. I just dont see how one can be aware of what has no form itself. Im not criticizing Rupert hes a great teacher but I find this mindbending and am totally open to clarification if anyone has it.

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@@quantumevolution4502 I have a deep fear of dissolution tbh

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@@jakelerms1935 the anxiety is the fear for the loss of self. i have experienced it many times, like a terror of disappearing in the vastness. It is funny to realize that dissolution happens into reality and leaves all confusion at the door, which is an other way to say, the process is a relaxing into that which is our true nature, our being and it's mysterious depth of existence. Once this is seen, the world of forms become again imbued with inner lights like the memories of our youth when our consciousness was clear and non concerned. That is the true freedom, to realize that we can experience both form and emptiness and that is which is beyond both form and emptiness...

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When I see that everything is just waves... What then? Another wave comes. I try to sink deep but find that observing the depth is just another wave. There is no depth, there is just waves... When I see stillness, it just is just an observation of stillness but brings no peace with it. Trying to sink is just another form... Exhaling all oxygen to sink further, I just feel the currents of exhalation.

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See end of video for name

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He quoted someone named, "la-la". How do you spell the person's name?

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Cameron Peterson Someone posted “Lalla.” I also found numerous web references; here is one: www.poetseers.org/spiritual-and-devotional-poets/sufi-poets/lalla/

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So stop searching in books etc an start meditating?

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Wondering how you earn a living now? Having this peace pays your bills and puts food on the table ? Just asking because I am truly scared of what would happen if all of us suddenly become aware

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How to sink attention can anyone clarify ???

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I am kinda stuck with that I.... It feels boring and lame. I know it isn't but I can't feel it..... It's just not interesting.... Not anymore... Why is that? Is that a special defense system from the ego? And what to do about it or not do?

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So? a person who is meditating shouldn't love? any person planning for a married life till their life time?

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Love naturally arises out of the emptiness of non-judgmental, pure awareness.

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@@zain4019 So what (?) Yours seems a glib and superficial truism to me. EVERYTHING arises out of pure Awareness . . . including (for example) being able to speak Swahili. But does cultivating pure Awareness lead to speaking fluent Swahili (?) No -- absolutely and categorically not. And the same is true for Love. An entirely different practice is necessary for realizing Love. That's why there's the ancient formula "Sat-Chit-Ananda": Chit (Awareness) . . . and Ananda (Love) . . . are not the same realization.

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