Nothing Ever Happens

[@HubfortheHeart]

I’ve studied and practiced nondual philosophy for 30 years with revered teachers. Few people settle into and stabilize in the platitudes espoused. The cost/benefit analysis, so to speak, is, overall, not super promising. Yes, there’s more compassion; yes, there’s greater connection to life. However, one can also see spiritual wreckage and disconnection and a never ending climb up a ladder. Nondual philosophy can feel endless, especially when presented with strong intellectual focus. It can also be used as a mask to deny life. I feel we must bring our humanness with us, embrace our human quirks as well as life and its joy and suffering-while loving true self/god/consciousness/Being. I’m grateful for teachers like Rupert and others, and feel they’re best not seen as the holder or evoker of final Knowledge. That’s for each of us to navigate….

[@adorableinsect]

I respect what you're saying and I think there is great wisdom in contrasting the absolute with the relative in the way that you have. Sorry the spiritual community is full of people who constantly want to one up each other with how enlightened they are, which is perhaps the least enlightened thing a spiritual person could do.

[@Veej77]

Appreciate the input from someone who has studied ND for a long time. I feel Rupert is one of the better ones as other teachers input's just does not click with me. I'm confortable with daily meditation and Kriya. Getting into a "flow state" is also a point worth reaching to.

[@C3l3bi1]

cost benefit? i dont think u have understand what is being talked about here

[@JThomasP]

Really well ssid

[@FirstPersonHood]

It's all so simple!!!!

[@Libra-v1r]

Looking back at my life at 54 I too think it has been like a dream. I remember most of what I have experienced but without the emotional attachment to people or situations. Like it has happened to somebody else.

[@pippipster6767]

That is because with the passage of time the emotional charge at the moment of the event that was undoubtedly there does not manifest again in memory. Which puts me in mind of this song lyric ‘I can laugh about it now but at the time it was terrible.’

[@chueikiir]

As a 25 year old, this is food for thought!

[@assaf]

The question is, what happens these days when there's an emotional situation? When you fight with a friend, when somebody is rude to you? Is there no emotional attachment theb? If so, awesome, congrats... But if not, you may have just described how things change in time.

[@audz]

​@@assaf there are thoughts, which join together and narrate a story, which get believed to be true. The emotions are believed to be there when watching the character and yet now there is honesty being expressed about said story, which then is received in love, rather than push back. This acceptance within this believed self then tells the character NOTHING - there's a gap in thinking - and the story dissipates as it is seen as a lie . It's simply stuck energy that is flowing through this vessel. This is life. This is God. IMO

Hm...🤔 Then you have to come back for the understanding that it is happening to you 😊 It is like a dream but even a dream can have a strong message for you. ❤ We chose this personal experience...even if we don't know why now.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

Row, Row, Row your boat...gently down the stream..🎶🎵🎶 merrily, merrily, merrily row....Life is but a Dream.

[@scottmlandy2012]

That song has been on repeat in my mind for a while now....

[@paulayers1111]

Bill Hicks: “what’s that song row row row your boat…life is but a dream? See we knew it as kids. We’ve forgotten it since.”

[@jl5034]

Sounds like the Tao Te Ching 😅

[@miket4092]

@@paulayers1111 love Bill Hicks!! I listen to his soundbyte "it's just a ride" all the time!

[@sonminorimitsuu2838]

100%

[@KennyVert]

"I'd like to check my understanding." What an absolutely superb and humble way to start a question! Fantastic!!

[@patsingleton2093]

What an amazing demonstration of "nothing ever happens" ! Can't wait for the next video " The Guru is an illusion"

[@artsmart]

I think I might be dreaming right now 😅

[@ganapati2623]

Well, for most part of humans it is a nightmare. I live in Brasil and the forests are burning. Shall we see the total collapse of the natural enviralment in this dream? Dear God, I hope not but what can a non existent being do?

[@strongblackcoffee9573]

I agree there are many "terrible" things happening in the world. I think all we can do is work on ourselves and try to love everyone, and hope that it makes some kind of difference..

[@nypala]

But we do exist and we can do something.

[@Misslotusification]

@@nypala Indeed. Rupert tackles this in another session.

[@plumeria66]

Work with the illusion. That’s all we can do in this immersive virtual reality.

[@danspeerschneider3840]

The more we understand directly who we really are the more we are susceptible to help the world and others because I see the same self in nature, animals, objets, humans, projects, politics, war, elections … etc …. ❤

[@lancejones4636]

I take comfort in this saying... "In the end everything will be fine, and if it's not fine, it is not the end."

[@grahamrobson998]

I have been a member of the Rupert Spira Gang for a long time now. Rupert has become the main event. I am pretty sure he was still doing his pottery when I found him. He his style seems to have changed a bit, but he has always been such a blessing for me. He has helped me to believe. Because I think you need to believe in someone. Rupert is who I believe in. He has been my faith in darkness and always a wise kind loving teacher. Thank you Rupert for the many years of help. I would also like to add that Alan neachell is a very bright star in bringing your work to many of us who love him.

[@billgucci8378]

Another very brief example of how Rupert, with one ponderous pause, goes from the esoteric verbiage of the ineffable to a sublime that is equally beyond words.

[@BW-sm4wu]

Being remains untouched, it touched everything but nothing touched it. ❤

[@doriesse824]

I'm in my 70s, and when I look back on my childhood, teenage and young adult years, it seems like that word "illusion" Rupert often uses. Probably the same thing his friend meant by "dream".

[@VeronikaLederer]

We are here to experience love...God IS LOVE. When there is no judgement, guilt and just unconditional love, you are healed. Forgiveness is the key. ❤

[@bijaykhanal6740]

u r so spot on. i havent figured out till now how are we all one. this concept is really hard for me to understand. how can i see another person as me? is it because i made that person with my consciousness in my reality?

[@decid3]

​@@bijaykhanal6740It is understandable that you have difficulty conceiving all as one. This seeming separate self cannot fathom beyond the body identity, generally. This is why the non-dual approach is one of negation, to negate, the seemingly separate self. How could one, identified as a body not perceive others or even the whole as separate from itself? The senses lie to us

[@henrique6766]

​@@bijaykhanal6740Think like this: everything comes exactly from the same place. We are all one particle of an infinite tree of things changing and transforming, till life was, for some reason, formed. From species evolutions to family trees. And, as it happens, we depend on all of it. We are part, as obvious as it sounds, of nature: we drink water, we eat, consume and give energy to the same interweb of things. Humanity's greatest sin is trying to segregate itself from the whole of nature.

[@kristinestout1170]

I hear you, Veronica. But why come here? We were already aware of our Oneness, in eternal bliss, and no healing was necessary. Why leave bliss in the first place? All this suffering seems unnecessary.

[@barrywilson4276]

Pain is certainly very real in the moment. Looking back is like a dream because it's just memory. You can't escape now.

[@misi3360]

There is nothing else but this - now.

[@Richard_Hoekstra]

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream

[@T2tcrypto]

SALUTATIONS to Brahman that isness, unborn, ever pristine, pure awareness. Once this clicks you begin to understand what spira is explaining and other advaita vedanta teachers have been trying to make us know, that all ever is YOU the essence of everything. Unfortunately we are taken by mere names and forms which is purely a projection of mind thinking it's real and Yet non existent neither real. Only ISNESS REALITY REALITY IS SHINNING FORTH AS PURE AWARENESS. Thank you rupert and all vedanta teachers @swami sarvapriyananda @swami Tadatmananda @ swami paramarthananda........ Sri Krishna is the Lord❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@inpulseduo5966]

Interesting, but life is not a dream - it is a nightmare!

[@angrysammo]

🤣 touché

[@ryan_deakin]

100 percent

[@JoyBoy-dj8ei]

Don’t resist try accepting

[@slavik4225]

If you say so

[@simonooi2544]

You, the Self or the pure awareness doesn’t change while the contents of the consciousness keep changing…

[@nsbd90now]

It is so wild how Mr. Rupert has hit upon such a clear and contemporary way of pointing to that making it easy to apprehend.

[@simonooi2544]

@@nsbd90now Yes, Truly amazing. We are all programmed by society to believe the contents captured by our mind which is ego oriented is the truth hence we suffer. Again we ignorantly blamed it on outer circumstances or others.

[@bparrish99]

"Pure awareness" and its contents are one and the same. At least in my experience. Trying to "rest as pure awareness" is just an attempt to escape. No chance.

[@nsbd90now]

@@bparrish99 It seems to me it is the both/and that is the tricky part. It is both "The One" AND the "10K Things".

[@bparrish99]

@@nsbd90now To me it's the least tricky thing possible. Look! Boom. There it is, always. You (not you personally, but you know what I mean) add stories to it about who it's happening to and why, and then you get all confused, but still, it's always just this. We seemingly complicate it with thought, but that too is a story. Even in the midst of the most painful confusion... whoomp, there it is. Too simple.

[@davidmickles5012]

This is the value of contemplating or "meditating" on death and impermanance. When you take such a practice seriously, when you "go there" it could be terrifying if you are not ready for it. But if you are ready it is very calming and relaxing because the emotional anxiety we carry with us is eased. Life is beautiful and we should fully enjoy engaging in it, and at the same time it is but a dream that we must relinquish. ❤🙏

[@FirstPersonHood]

Sounds scary.,glad it's all story!😊

[@Torkieh]

The way your dying friend saw his life almost makes dying something beautiful and comforting. And that’s scary as fuck.

[@shinji5967]

‘ So what was the question”? Lol says it all

[@sartemisa1]

He's a player... just buying time to compose his twisted reasoning

[@10164Y]

@@sartemisa1 wtf? she made a statement that she manted to "check" her understanding, then continues to tell a story, then just stops talking. she did not ask anything, the only reasonable option rupert had were to ask her what her question was since she was very unclear. other then that he could have said "oh nice story, let's move on"

[@sartemisa1]

@@10164Y wise people, teachers, gurus, whatever label you fancy projecting to some ( include your Rupert here ) don't need a question mark to give feedback. If you don't like the word answer, there are other man-made concepts: feedback, ideas. It depends what you want: to help one, to be rigid, to look like you confiscated / have / control the truth, to cash-in, etc.

[@10164Y]

@@sartemisa1 wtf. Sure e does not beed a questionnark. He could give ant answer hed like. Not very effectiv for her though.

[@YamarajaDasaAlcyone]

If anyone can find or has a copy of the story that the woman shared at the beginning, can you please share it? The story is the same one that I read 40 years ago and I have never been able to find it again. I thought the story was in fact about a man who had gone to see a wise man, hearing of how he could transport you to another time and place. The man was not very happy and thught how wonderful it would be to have a different life. So the wise man placed a bucket on the head of the man and this instantly transported him to another era where everything and everyone was different. The man ended up getting married and having children. He lived and worked in the village where he got married and eventually after many years, all of his family had passed and he himself was now very old and as he passed from the world, at the same time, the wise man was removing the bucket from the mans head to reveal to him the world he had in fact never left.

[@Healerfilm]

So do something illegal and go to jail and say nothing ever happened.

[@Shanjuran693]

How does anyone take this guy seriously?

[@sawmill123456]

Please send me all your money and credit cards that aren't maxed out!!! Cause it's happening for me🤣🤣🤣

[@nsbd90now]

"So, nothing ever happened?" "Yes." lol! Short 'n to the point!

[@Vrangstrupen]

She totally failed the formulate a question until "is that fair that say?". She seems used to say things that prevents a conversation. I pity Rupert for that rough pass, but he takes over so well. Profoundly good speaker.

[@chitradevima]

nothing ever happened to the Supreme Self that you are..nothing ever happened to what he calls Infinite Consciousness..you have to be completely enlightened to really get it..

[@andrewastral8880]

We are quantum based multi-dimensional beings. There is always something going on at various different levels within us whether we realise it or not and everything is always evolving. If you learn to consciously Astral Project, part of the skillset you need to develop is learning how to remember your experience because very often these experiences are not easily accessible by the conscious mind. I''m not a fan of non duality philosophy. The loss of personal identity that many people experience can cause a lot of mental health issues. I'm a big fan of seeing and experiencing things for yourself directly. No doctrine, only what you have seen and experienced for yourself is your truth. For those that are interested, Robert Bruces books on Astral Projection such as Astral Dynamics are truly mind blowing. When I started to consciously Astral Project, it changes my view on so many things

[@adammorra3813]

Thank you for your comment. I resonate a lot with it. I have tried astral projection and out of body experience but it has always alluded me. And I end up not having the discipline and giving up after a few weeks of try when I get no success. Any recommendations on how to astral projection or have an OOBE? What method best worked for you? Not in the technique but kept you going even if you saw no success until you did.

[@andrewastral8880]

@@adammorra3813 Get the books by Robert Bruce (Astral Dynamics, Mastering Astral Projecting, The Treatise on Astral Projection). I personally use a modified version of the rope technique that Robert describes. The key is relaxation. The ego often gets in the way and when the vibrations kick in this can cause a lot of fear. To negate this and help keep an observer mindset, I push my ego to the back of my system. I don't force anything, but I make strong intentions to my higher self to allow my personal grace (my true essence) to step forward and take more centre stage in my system. I don't try to orchestrate any movements in my system, I set the intention and step out of the way and let this happen. Once I feel that my ego is taking a backseat, then I start the rope technique. If you want a guaranteed OOBE, you can take a breakthrough level of DMT (typically by vaping 50mg or more). However, I would think carefully carefully about doing that. I cannot stress how powerful DMT is. My recommendation is to get the books by Robert Bruce and take that path. Make the decision to REALLY do it, put the work in and you will do it. Mastering Astral Projection is great because it is a step-by-step cookbook and the skills that you learn are skills that you keep for ever. Best of luck.

[@Soulsmusic1931]

Non Duality is a philosophy.. It is the truth whether you have the realisation of it or not..

[@NoRaengs99]

Now I am stucked in paradox.. If All this is dream, then What should I do? Why shoud I study and work for life? In reality, It does feels there’s nothing to do, but In ego’s personal level, there are many things to do… I feel both level and therefore confusing. Even these questions feel like ego’s activity…

[@joyceleentvaar]

Well, why shouldn’t you do the things you normally do? You can do your things whilst being aware of being. Seems like you’re experiencing a mindstorm, just go on with your life, you cannot fail. This mindstorm needs to happen. Keep visiting being once a day by listening to rupert for example. It will sort itself out, you can trust on that

[@yarik6591]

Bear in mind that Rupert's dream analogy is only a pointer. And in my eyes very poor one.

[@batchimegdamdindorj8557]

You know they say in Buddhism before enlightenment you chop wood and carry water after enlightenment you also chop wood and carry water changes in perception happens internally externally nothing changes you just go about your life because well you are here to live

[@NoRaengs99]

Thank you guys🙏

[@phoenyx22]

​@@yarik6591define "poor" please. The concept of life as a dream is so poor that one may found it 3000 years ago in Hinduism and Greek philosophy (notably Heraclitus and the famous Platonic Allegory of the Cave), and it is has been explored by writers from Lope de Vega to Shakespeare.

[@ChristianGospelNewSongs-r7l]

One impediment to understading consciousness is that we are taught to believe that it is an unstructured, free form phenomenon, but it isn't. Brainwave research has shown that every state of consciousness is precisely linked to a specific range of brainwave frequencis. We can only dream betwen 4-6 Hz, only fall unconsious below 3 Hz and only be in alert states about 10Hz. Think about the implications of what that means for our concepts of reality and dreaming...

[@Corey_jam3s]

I understand this now. Just came to me other day. Any memory I can think of feels exactly the same as any dream I’ve had while sleeping.. even though thinking of this morning when I woke up just feels like a dream when you think of it LOLLLL

[@martydas6233]

Bloody hell.. this is so true! ❤

[@jeansmyth7474]

Wordsworth ~ life is but a dream and a forgetting. …….

[@chrismatthews8717]

Try telling that to the bailiffs 😂

[@kudakwashekapande6035]

Indeed life is a dream

[@68Gkirby]

The NDE occurred along with several other experiences that thinking mind could not understand, but something inside of me back then, Knew was Real and powerful. And then after a few months it was all wiped away. I couldn’t remember it at all. No pieces, parts, or residue of that experience, which was Really About Knowing Awareness. And then, in my late 40’s the world created by and attached to thinking mind, began to fracture apart. I had no awareness that my identity was so desperately tied to this world of make believe, but it was. As losses mounted, fear, anxiety, despair and depression set in. There was nowhere else to turn, and I found myself sitting helpless and all alone. Thoughts would arise, fear would ensue, but even then I watched as I was becoming Aware that thoughts had betrayed me in the past. In fact, I was starting to understand that what I thought to be true and real was merely an illusion. This was intense and overwhelming for thinking mind. And, of course, I felt it in my body but was not yet able to separate from the body-mind and See what was watching this all take place. And then, without thinking, doing, or trying, the memory of the NDE came flooding back. It was as though it was taking place now. I Saw and felt Awareness above the body Seeing the body and all that was around. Nothing had a value, meaning, or purpose. In fact, there was no such thing in my Awareness as purpose, meaning, or value. These seemed to be thoughts. I try to explain the sense of Awareness, but I cannot seem to get close to its Reality. It was/Is Life, Love, Gentleness, Yes, Ok, Wholeness, Oneness, and many other similar words, but even these words don’t properly describe the beauty, sense of being safe and Joy of the Awareness. It felt as though I was in a Flow and All that Is was also Flow. There Was/Is creativity, aliveness, and limitless Love. I still at times try to understand Awareness, Consciousness, Love and Life through thinking mind. Each time I do I feel angst and fear rising up. And then I sit, watch the breath, feel the Awareness of the NDE experience, and I feel cleansed from the muddy mixture of thinking. Clarity and Knowing appears more fully, and I remember. All thoughts dissolve while Knowing is present. Not knowing of a specific thing or a judgement, but a Knowing that Is All. This Knowing is All and therefore there is no other thing(s) or no opposites. All Is One, Complete and Infinite in this Awareness. Thinking mind still cannot understand Awareness, but I am witnessing thoughts becoming less and less an active veil to Awareness. At one-point thoughts consumed and veiled Awareness, and as Flow has unfolded, thoughts moved further and further into the background. Yes, they are here at times, but no longer do they define Reality. When thoughts hook me for a time, I sit, explore, and Awareness Shines, creating Clarity and remembrance. I have become Aware that an NDE is not necessary to Remember Self or Awareness. Many, many people Know and have different paths and experiences that bring about Remembering. Mine just happened to be an NDE. I can’t talk about others experiences, but what I do Know is that when they speak of the Awareness and they have truly experienced It, a Knowing arises that causes me to shout to myself, Yes! I say Yes to these teachings!

[@emilypotato9495]

Thank you,Rupert, and I am thankful for your ability to verbalize and explain these beautiful Truths as well as you do ❤️

[@tectonictraveller]

You could say “Things” only happen.

[@GratefulZen]

“Oh, Heaven Heaven is a place A place where nothing Nothing ever happens.” - Heaven by Talking Heads

[@markallinson8350]

Or to put it another way: NOTHING ever-happens

[@jsharp9735]

Reality is not reality so you can do whatever you want is what everyone wants hear.

[@kolarz2128]

But you'll be forced to meet consequences of your actions anyways.

[@jsharp9735]

@@kolarz2128 What consequence ? You just end up getting sucked back into "existence, oneness, the universe"..there is no consequence, morality, oughts or justice.

[@phil.c.]

There isn't a 'you' to do whatever you want. BE quieter.

[@jsharp9735]

@@phil.c. If there isn't you, what are you ?

[@kolarz2128]

@@jsharp9735 if you want to know what kind of consequences then go and do something which is considered to be bad 😂

[@panayiotisrock]

this clip reminded me of a phrase we have in Greece man is the shadow of a dream. Pindaros 6-5 century BC

[@electricearth1101]

this is a very bad and dangerous idea. people are not gonna fulfill their earthly desires and be able to detach from this world if they just think every action is an illusion not worth doing.

[@demingliu1917]

It is simply a mystery that some guy like this one can write a book and give a seminar with audience to churn out "a load of bollox" and to make money whereas many other guys did write books and attempt to give seminars but could not find an audience. Maybe the moral is, it exists to remind people of the danger lying beneath such sort of load of shit and the further danger with the followers of such sort of shit.

[@irinaisakov7021]

@@demingliu1917 I don't think anymore it is a mystery... no matter of what you or anyone think of Rupert and what his seminars, these talks on KZbin and books bring, open and help, i believe we live in two-tiered society where some people have a way to go with a fame, money etc, but never the others. Someone, some organizations in this world has to publish your books, organize seminars, do all advertisements and so on. Before just recent time i never asked these questions and had no suspicion of how all of this is happening...Don't get me wrong i appreciate Rupert and enjoyed his talks very much at some point in time, but this strange dream world, this society with its strict rules exists for a very very long time to influence our mind, to take us away from who we are - the Self.

[@huihu7432]

nope, the world is not working like that. Even though what he's telling is truth. Do you think one guy one the internet can change the world? some maybe? but that some who has influenced by him is nothing comparing to the world out there.

[@hemamalini8933]

Beautiful, I totally agree with you. Thank you so much sweetheart for showing the illusory nature of life ❤🙏🙏

[@wellmadegifts]

Life is but a dream.

[@bertibear1300]

I think I exist on 2 levels and in this realm things happen.Thats why it’s like a school.There is suffering but there is a path to wellbeing, even here.

[@sunisagotirat1332]

wow Thank you🙏🙏🙏👁💥💯

[@jmseipp]

Experiment: Step out in front of an 18 Wheeler Tractor Trailer barreling down the Highway to test and see if “Nothing happens”

[@phoenyx22]

The experiment you propose is unnecessary destructive for the body. You may think instead at the passage of time which, in the same way, destroys the body, in the mind-body perspective. At the same time, there is a part of you, that I AM, that has not changed since you were a child. 😊From the point of view of I AM, nothing happened. 1:08 for the One Infinte Reality nothing happens /for the finite mind things seems to happen

[@HeySaddy]

You didn't get what Rupert tried to say. Yes you are in front of the trailer and hit you any time and the body will survive or not. So it also happened in the dream.

[@jmseipp]

@@HeySaddy I choose to remain on the side of the road and watch as you step out in front of the truck to see what happens.

[@HeySaddy]

@@jmseipp I already mentioned both scenarios. You are still not interested to learn what Rupert is saying.

[@jmseipp]

@@HeySaddy I like much of what Rupert is saying. I don’t always agree with him however and I’m glad.

[@Jojoyou628]

There is a saying, where a student asks his master : “What were you doing before enlightenment? Master: Chopping wood and carrying water. What are you doing now after enlightenment ? Master: Chopping wood and carrying water. “

[@kristinestout1170]

I've heard it said that life is our classroom where we learn how to "make more God". Love increases as we give it away, so this made sense to me. I've also heard it said that we came here to this human experience on purpose, knowing that parts of it would be extremely painful, but we came anyway. We were like an acorn, and inside us was the potential for becoming a great oak. This increase, too, made sense to me. So my question is this: if being never learns, never grows, never changes, what difference does it make? Why seemingly suffer so greatly? Even the playing of a game has a purpose, so what is it? Why bother enduring the darkness if you learn nothing and don't grow or change at all? Can infinity grow? Or split an infinite number of times? I'm confused by what you said here because it sounds like you're saying it can't, or at least it doesn't. What motivates being to choose a life (or many lives) of darkness and fear? Is it just like an amusement park ride for it? If so, I may want to get off now.

[@jl5034]

Rupert contradicts himself. If nothing exists and nothing ever happens, then what is he doing there? Why is he writing books? Why did he say " money is God's love"? 🤯

[@JoyBoy-dj8ei]

Things seem to happen on a personal level where we think we as persons do things and react upon things but in reality at this very moment nothing happens from a pure conscious view nothing ever happens

[@Rob_132]

Absolute perspective vs relative perspective

[@Dr.AlessandroDrago]

He speaks in a esoteric way, not material thinking (exoteric).

[@jl5034]

I appreciate all of your replies. Let me ask you more directly: if you knew, if you REALLY REALLY KNEW that Rupert, Ramana, Tony Parsons, etc, were right and that WE DO NOT EXIST, would you still be running your life the same way? Thank you.

[@Rob_132]

@@jl5034 Thank you for the conversation. I’ve had this thought too. Enlightened or not, we still have to eat food to stay alive. Are you familiar with the Zen koan of chopping and carrying wood before or after enlightenment? I’ll add, if you continue seeking wisdom and practicing some form of “meditation,” certain truths will become apparent in your heart. Language and logic will fail to contain these truths. You might have subtle and not so subtle changes in your life. Maybe practice will lend more answers than believing or not believing.

[@austincellar]

I’m guessing this guy is making a living dispensing these ideas. That is amazing.

[@lancejones4636]

You're obviously not ready to listen.

[@GS-gq5is]

As someone once said, "You ain't nothing but a hound dog . . . :)

[@LianaMarvel]

Like anybody else who makes a living selling something. What's wrong about it? Nobody asked you to buy his books.

[@prabhuganesanin]

This story is an important story in Hinduism

[@pandzban4533]

We are spectators riding self propelled projectors who can interact with the realm we are in. Basic physics in this realm and biology that follows the same rules confirm it is so. There is always a delay between what is happening and when we actually see it. It is always past and the delay is substantial. At First signal must reach our detectors. Then it is transferred via nervous system to the brain. Brain decodes and puts everything on scream. That explains all the issues. We usually think of eyesight but it refers to every sense. It is the highest quality movie theater, not for free. This induces reactive state of mind due to fear of the unknown projected always into future.

[@ceeebeee11]

I'm currently reading the Disappearance of the Universe. I will read ACIM next.

[@fredphipps9452]

Yes, but......

[@peacetree5000]

One can not organize the truth.

[@farerse]

so what is the point of this dream then

[@humanjustbeing_]

If we are not experiencing it all first hand, there is a window or a middle-man inbetween us and it. Either we are following teachers, scriptures, traditions or the way's of the backwards society we live in, we are following just another feeling towards the same thing that we are experiencing ourselves right here in this now, in our slightly different but still same imperfect now. When learning any kind of passed down information no matter where on the spectrum of truth it is ranging, we are by doing so un-learning ourselves in order to put ourselves under & add on someone else's inner stance, which with time are going to make us, our inner being, into more of a copy than an actual self. Life is live, feel, learn and re-remember and the life we live is the teacher itself, where by living it we should be growing into living books of knowledge, if we actually live it for ourselves. We are both the teacher and the student, as we are both the observer and the one who project the whole moving picture that we see infront of us and dive into each new day when we open our eyes and the camera is again for us, rolling. We are all playing a lead-role in a meaningless story called life. Meaningless until we give it our meaning & all throughout life we will be acting as each others mirrors as well, reflecting all the greatness but also the inner work which we are taught and told to just brush under the carpet. So really, we should be grateful for all interaction with life as there is a teacher in absolutely everything. When breaking it down, all we truly have is our energy and together with our energy all we truly need in this life is good health, good morals and a fine-tuned instrument, as in us, to express ourselves properly with, in order to free our minds. let the caged bird fly! Follow no one who wishes followers but lend an ear to the one's who encourage you to live your life for you and to walk your own path. Only by doing so we'll truly get to know who we are and what we are truly here for. We already have it all and we are already here. We need no middle-man in order to stay connected to ourselves. We are that creators energy...we are it. We are all born out of it and we're given a slightly different perspective to take in the experience with for a reason. So not to fall for false light. Saying that though, we can not escape what we are not first aware of. We are all god's until it finds a way to change the mind. 💜

[@batchimegdamdindorj8557]

I feel like these days I just sit and watch what happens like a spectator even when I sometimes swear there’s an observer in the background partly there’s a knowing it’s all just an illusion but with this body and mind you can’t help but participate in life so it seems to happen but it’s not. The most prominent change in this has been disassociation it’s brought me immense peace.

[@Unknown-y9v]

life is a word

[@huihu7432]

It's like you're living in your own dream

[@levlevin182]

Dreams come true & then you get a Life. Thanks for your work Rupert & friends.😅

[@apollo8352]

It is a very interesting perspective....but is there any advantage in knowing this, or are we better off playing the game we think we are in. Pondering this still further is it not harmful to hold the belief nothing ever happens and nothing exist, for if you do not play the game at hand you will cease to exist... Is existing; living, dying, loving, experiencing great happiness and sadness , being comfortable and uncomfortable, experiencing music and the fine arts... working, relaxing... worth doing? When the alternative is not to exist or have existed?? Even if life etc is all a delusion surely living is a better option then to never have existed!

[@kakikukeko78]

Many people in life, go through a roller coster of emotions everyday,because they have so many insistence of situation outcomes… isnt that stressful? Just relax.. go with the flow, dont be attached to anything.. of course you can still do your best to try to go in a certain direction, but dont worry if it doesn't go that way… it’s just a dream… And when you actually start relaxing, stop worrying, life start to unfold in the best way possible, you start dissociating from the victim mentality, and your mind will merge into the Creator’s..

[@phoenyx22]

imagine a stage on which there are 10 participants in a hypnosis show. 5 run to catch some invisible chickens, 4 roll around in imaginary pain and one laughs with tears. Is there any advantage of them knowing this?

[@apollo8352]

@@phoenyx22 That is the prize question, is there an advantage to know your participating in a delusion..... what is the alternative, if it is nothing and non existing then maybe choosing the delusion is not so bad.

[@phoenyx22]

​@apollo8352 1 you exist 2 time is an illusion How can something that exists NOW cease to exist? The way you know the physical reality is an illusion is that it change, it deteriorates. What is real is forever. Does that help?🙂

[@apollo8352]

@@phoenyx22 No because that suggests to me something that is forever cannot change in any way shape or form. The only thing the comes close to that would be a rock, and your not suggesting we are all rocks having some sort of delusion from what I can tell....

[@JulianK55]

And I’m sitting here eating ice cream

[@ronaldent5781]

Well, when you're looking death in the eye, it's nice to say that your life was a dream. But when you're in the middle of it, you sing a quite different tune, I think. For example, when you hit your head really hard. Do you than say: It's just a dream? And does that make the pain go away? Saying that life is just a dream makes no sense at all. Because we all live here in a body. And that body makes you feel every day that you're there. If you don't take good care of it, it will get sick and you will suffer. And then you can't get away with dreaming that "it's all just a dream". That's so unrealistic. A denial of what really is: Consciousness, intelligence and love that express themselves in material form.

[@bassmonk2920]

Emptiness is form and form is emptiness....

[@sartemisa1]

He's such an actor 🎉

[@benmaxinm]

@@sartemisa1 Is this a dream?

[@sartemisa1]

@benmaxinm are you dreaming?

[@RobbeyT1]

There is only "Is-ness", it's silent and perfect, non moving stillness like the depths of the ocean. There is only this still, none moving infinite "Is-ness". What appears to move is the surface waves of the ocean, this movement that constantly appears and disappears is the activity of the finite mind. But in reality there is No mind, and without mind all there is, is infinite stillness. So from our understanding, everything is stillness moving and silence sounding. So the waves are the illusion, the mind activity rather like a dream. Nothing is really happening, it only appears to be happening.

[@spiritlightpajic7299]

🌅Being IS The Life and Life IS Being 'These' Are No t o w , As "I 'and' My Father lS One.." so There No Being 'and" Life , I AM IS The Life Which lS Being , 'These' Are One Reality Only the terms used are different ... When we see rain 🌧️ .. IS it rain 🌧️.. or IS it Being Appering As rain 🌧️.. L i f e IS Happening ..." I AM Life Eternal..".I AM That Eternal Being Which lS L i f e Revealing lTS Presence in The Infinite Expressions🙏

[@venkat2002]

Those silences are beautiful, between every word.

[@graemethies-thompson6308]

If youre struggling to get this, relax. You will never get it because you are the dream. If you really get down to your definition of reality, can it be impermanent, unsatisfactory and not-self? Who is even asking this its all just a hallucination so stop worrying, you dont have sufficient knowledge to justify any anxiety or fear. Not to say anything is wrong of course, whatever is appearing is perfection appearing as donuts, grief, train rides, and crayons. Its just jazz

[@johnb8854]

*"LIFE The Real Self" is NOT the Dream ! It is the Observer "AWARENESS and SELF-AWARENESS" i.e. LIFE... ALL of our experiences involve "Story-Books" ( Program Books ) played in a very, very small Display Register of a "Terminal" ( referred to as The SOUL in ancient manuscripts ) of a huge network involving "The Processing System of LIFE", involving what was referred to in ancient manuscripts as "The HOUSE of GOD"...*

[@Anti79Hero]

He seems to be suggesting that The Ashes is played between England and India ?

[@tiny_Memories-k4g]

What about people who died from Hunger, from war, from unjust world!!! What about them. Are u trying to tell me they were dreaming of being Killed with cold Blood!!!!!! Lkke that without any Justice I'm sure there's a God justice When i saw the evil in this world i trust God's hell even more

[@Vib-q3g]

Theyre not dreaming of being killed, you're dreaming them being killed...

[@Irene-jh7re]

EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT THE SAME TIME.

[@edyta1409]

How

[@BC-lf4om]

Tell us HOW U Know That ! 🎉

[@lukethekuya]

Chudsissies we won

[@Luketherapy]

If I told you that tomorrow morning I was going to give you £10million and all you had to do was tonight, when you sleep, you are going to have the worse nightmare in the world. The absolute worst, most dreadful nightmare you could imagine. Would you do it? Of course you would. Why? Because you know you won’t be harmed and tomorrow you will wake up again out of it. Well, our spirit has done the same thing. It has decided to go into a dreadful nightmare for a minuscule amount of time in comparison to eternity, and when you wake up (die) it’ll be just like awakening from a nightmare. And you will then get eternity in heaven.

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

Life is not a dream. Anything that denies the ALLNESS of LIFE would appear as a dream but a dream is something that didn’t really happen.

[@ST-oe4wc]

With all due respect, non-duality teachers are promoting a spiritual bypass that ignores the most important biological reality in the body-mind of most, if not all, human beings today - the impact of early childhood stress from physical and emotional neglect and abuse on brain development. Almost everyone in western countries were abandoned by their mothers to go back to work during critical neurological development, in the first three years of life especially. This is the root of the problem and grieving with a deeply empathetic therapist must occur as a biological stress release response to bring the human being sustainably out of a chronic stress state. The truth naturally emerges from this stable state. The best information on this is from the expert Erica Komisar, a psychoanalyst who is the most important voice on this topic in the world today. Her videos are freely available on KZbin. Love

[@JulianK55]

How tf did we get here

[@nickb3345]

Woman’s Bollox

[@AKA_SimplyHuman]

Life is real. How you are able to see it is technically dreaming. Your brain turns EMR into sight, sound, taste, touch and thought or memories. When you sleep and dream, these same mechanisms can replicate, from memory, even alter memory to form realistic visual, sound, taste, smell and touch. This is your cue that you create not your reality, but the aforementioned characteristics. It’s so simple and logical. Even a cave man can do it.

[@phil.c.]

Consciousnessawarenessbeing does this.

[@AKA_SimplyHuman]

@@phil.c. Consciousness, awareness, being are all activities, not active agents. The unknowable, the indescribable, the first and last, is energetic, aware, self organizing, continue this list of activities to exhaustion and you will have only one being all.

[@sandstorm6605]

@@AKA_SimplyHuman I might disagree with you just a bit there. Consciousness and awareness are not activities. They just are. In the same way that a tree is not a verb.

[@AKA_SimplyHuman]

@@sandstorm6605 Sorry, that is not accurate. Consciousness or awareness, same exact thing, is a process of perceiving. Source perceives through awareness. Awareness is an energy output and increases in complexity with degree of expression or in other words, the single cell has a degree of awareness above the molecule. The organism has awareness a degree above the single cell. Source has basic awareness that spirals outward in ever increasing complexity eventually reaching life as we know it. A tree is aware. Albeit still a tree.

[@kathynewkirk683]

@@AKA_SimplyHumansource is awareness…

[@markoconnor4380]

The pauses are infirnet

[@brianbachinger6357]

Non-duality isn’t correct. It makes two fatal flaws: 1. The assumption that because things change that they are illusory. This is an assumption that doesn’t necessarily follow. It could be that what is changing is participating in eternal forms, sort of in a platonic sense. The assumption that it is only awareness that is unchanging is a fatal flaw. Our awareness is also a participation in a never ending presence. We can each verify this. Is your awareness truly unchanging? No, it fluctuates, and yet you know that it has to have a part of it that is unchanging. 2. When we go deeper, we see that what is at our core is not just an impartial awareness, but a desire for love, intentionality, creativity and goodness. That is not the same thing as just being aware of things. That awareness has a nature and characteristics. All of this has lead me to the conclusion that the early church had it right in understanding the Trinity. We are mirrors of God who is three in one. Those three parts are each us and each participate is God who is three in one. Life is a love story, not just being aware. God truly is love. We will be reunited in love forever.

[@C3l3bi1]

"That awareness has a nature and characteristics." how can awareness have charecteristics? what? what form does it have? " The assumption that because things change that they are illusory." yes that does follow, anything impermanent is not real, merely a dream. " Our awareness is also a participation in a never ending presence" no because awareness is not a form.

[@10164Y]

a dont think that's an assumption that is made.

[@arno9302]

When our minds are quiet there is a certain kind of experience. And it seems as though we are now beyond the mind. Or some will say at that moment there is no mind. Only awareness or pure being, without a separate individual. For nonduality teachers that is just their description of this supposedly self-existent nondual state of being. And for them the experience of this is free from any involvement of their own. It is the deeper underlying reality of all that is they say. In my opinion they make one crucial mistake. They overlook the fact that they already have a pre-given interpretation of that state/experience beforehand. And that interpretation (there being only limitless awareness without a separate self) is to a large extent going to shape the way in which this state will be experienced. And if that is true, then maybe nonduality is not the undeniable, self-evident and ultimate truth of existence it appears to be. But just one of many possible ways to look at it.

[@toddborstad504]

Yes I agree, as Rupert may say we can only see those interpretations through our finite mind. I cannot comprehend or even try to understand that out of nothing comes everything. But the human experience is trying to logically make sense of it all, isn't this our job to do so?

[@phoenyx22]

🤫

[@nikkifrye7599]

🫨🫨🫨🫠🫠🫥

[@C3l3bi1]

"e. They overlook the fact that they already have a pre-given interpretation of that state/experience beforehand. " which state? non duality is not a state

[@arno9302]

@@C3l3bi1 Well, that is also a pre-given interpretation. I know it feels like it’s beyond all states. Because the nondual teachings will tell you that is the truth of it. So then of course it will also be experienced in that way. But it’s just a state which feels ‘stateless’. And then you tell yourself you are in ‘a place’ beyond all states. Some say what you are is awareness. Yes, when you turn ‘inwards’, that seems totally obvious. Neo-advaita teachers say there is no awareness, there is nothing (just what’s apparently happening). Then the awareness is at least not so obvious anymore. It’s whatever interpretation you will bring with you that’s shaping your experience.

[@Bobsbigbuoy]

If Life were NOT a dream, but real, how would you know?

[@Eternal00211]

Define REAL.

[@gireeshneroth7127]

The mind with reference to itself is the so called experiential reality .of subject and objects Exclusively a mental event as subject and objects.. You are Consciousness living a mind wake.

[@lucakyoung]

Gorgeous

[@awakenotwoke7949]

For something to happen, you need Time and Space. Both are illusions. There is only Now and Here.

[@ourdan14]

For 99,99% of people its inconceivable but its 100% truth

[@katehiggins9940]

@@ourdan14it is inconceivable for 100% of anything 🤪

[@sartemisa1]

@awakenotwoke Now & Here don't refer to Time & Space? Is Now & Here about Colours & Sounds? 🎉

[@TheLeoPoint]

Object/materialistic point of view seems happening bc of thoughts/action sequences due to sequence we can say /felt something or worldly things happening but in actual nothing has ever happened in existence point of view,.👌🏻bc we conditioned in such way since childhood society school taught us to classify identify seperate everything that's why we see difference ,.. eg take a look where did your childhood gone , zoop now it's just dream !!!

[@chrispage2782]

Hey, I have a table like that, and a similar lamp, and chair (although MY chair is WAY more comfortable). Now, I CAN grow a beard, but it comes in spotty on my cheeks and neck. Can I. get a job like this? Looks pretty simple…;

[@sonminorimitsuu2838]

It just a dream, within a dream, within a dream, wishing a dream etc...Remember who you are!

[@yannickmantele5788]

is this a performance?

[@SlobodanBubalo-g7i]

Why is nightmare instead nice dream?At what is point of this dream?

[@KavithaIyer]

book titled Yoga Vashista?

[@beatleme2]

Nothing is real and nothing to be hung up about, strawberry fields forever

[@EllenBerberich]

Doesn’t this philosophy denigrate the human experience?

[@Sander820]

Well it's just another bypass

[@davidrandell2224]

“Nothing at all is justified by being “; “No idea has existence, because none is capable of embodiment “, Max Stirner,1844/2017 Landstreicher translation. Such mindless drivel.

[@DJMikeron]

It doesn’t matter what religion or philosophy you are into or what your level of consciousness is, before enlightenment chop wood and fetch water , 💧 after enlightenment chop wood fetch water 💧 😂dream on😂

[@hansgouda8593]

But on a more sensory level, things change regularly: That beard and moustache suit you very well. Yes, it is true, everything changes - Panta Rhei, but consciousness is completely still, sees nothing, hears nothing, feels nothing, it is.

[@amirafathy]

And the word existence means that we stand out of god. We don't exist and Nothing exists means we don't stand out of god. We are not apart from god. Not separate from him. Our being is only God's being. There is only one being gods being. So what seems to be me, you, people, forests, things to the mind is only one being, gods being. When we are aware of that, living as that, this is the ultimate form of love, no seperation. And every act would arise from ultimate love to heal, uplift and transform to a higher level.

[@Trevor-z7b]

Well, if all these are a dream, then I can grow my height by 20 cm overnight. How do I do that?