Meditation: A Dream in God's Infinite Mind | Rupert Spira

This meditation poses questions that elicit the recognition of the infinite nature of awareness as well as the feeling/understanding that awareness is the substance of all objective experience.
From the seven day retreat at Garrison institute - October 2016. For access to the full recording see here: non-duality.rup...
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I recommend - for anyone struggling to grasp the full meaning of these videos - that you listen again and again. Rupert is amazingly clear considering the depth that he dares to lay bare. A full grasp will be yours if you persevere. 💞

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What he is telling can be clearly understood in Advait vedanta, he practices that. You must watch swami sarvpriyananda.

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@@anantsingh7707 Or just read The Kybalion, it explains things quite clearly.

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@@anantsingh7707 Advaita

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"Who" is struggling to understand, lol

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@@ultracalicokittycat "who" is struggling to understand 🤓 🤣

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I think starting today I am going to quit watching spiritual videos and just practice being aware in everyday life. I think I've gained all I can from teachers.

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Yes

[@lucycallaghan8435]

Yes!!

[@arielmeadow]

I recently attended one of Rupert's retreats and a woman who had been to five retreats stood up at one point and said, essentially "thank you so much for all the teaching... This will be my last retreat because I think I've gotten it." Rupert was delighted. it was a wonderful moment.

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Wonderful 👍 Rupert's teachings gives me the same confidence.. I'm grateful to him🙏

[@bulletsmichael]

Omg ! That was the most incredible experience while investigating under the influence on a small dose of mushrooms ...just enough to help blur and soften that thicker layer of preconceptions... I not only understood intellectually but experienced it as real. Rupert ...thank you! I will be revisiting this !

[@bulletsmichael]

@Neil Cassey I remember it completely.. You're just projecting your own limited biases and assumptions onto something you don't understand. Cute :)

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Rupert saved me with his knowledge. I’m so glad all of us found him🌸 I hope many more will. May we all live in and as freedom 💕 Blessings.

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This is the ultimate. Teaching. Very profound. And accsesable

[@marynatani7300]

I had my spiritual awakening Nov 3 2018 and it’s deepening now. RS is a gift.

[@DLBurggraf]

Dreams appear to be real while you are them...so it is with this world.

[@db8799]

@@cosmicsprings8690 you are still dreaming... Your every thought is a trance...a spell...brought upon Awareness....which is peace Itself....

[@NadavHbr]

Some dreams dont seem to be real.

[@Meme-eb2te]

@@db8799 it’s an interest topic, isn’t it? The place! That’s not entangled, can’t be named. When you’re in it, you’re it.. everything, and so it’s unbound, and any binding is a dream.. such a tricky topic, but the reality so surreal.. a sphere of truth, untouched .. The reality is so large, that’s the beautiful thing about it.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

@@cosmicsprings8690 maybe your projecting your own regrets, fear and loneliness.

[@feelsokayman3959]

not all dreams. in some dreams you know it isnt real.

[@varougemerdjanian1396]

There is absolutely nothing to say. It is absolutely mind-boggling to even think that such a clarity of understanding is possible for a human mind. Thank you for sharing and making it available for me. I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to hear this wonderful meditation . With deep heartfelt gratitude and love thank you.🙏

[@kpanikkar]

I have been searching for a long time and I finally found my teacher. I live my life with this understanding and all the divine qualities are manifesting. I am filled with love compassion and empathy. I find everything and everyone so beautiful. I finally realized that it is so much more intensive to love than be loved. Thank you Rupert🙏❤️

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[@jesusolmo6278]

"Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time." -Thomas Merton.

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I wanted to express to Rupert how much I love and appreciate what he is sharing with us and just then my heart opened and I realized I didn’t need to say anything . But I will anyways . I will come back to you for years to come dear friend as the layers come off and I’m ready to understand .

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What a wonderful consolidation meditation of all Rupert’s teaching. Loved it 🙏

[@flyingwiththebird]

I have spent many years reading east and western philosophies and studied psychology. Many terms bandied about like the nature of mind and non duality are constantly discussed. Even though many great teachers have direct experience of these concepts they seem unable to create a dialogue which properly explains the mechanism of their experiences. They seem to know but lack the words. Even greats like Krishnamirti say “ you just need to be aware” But what does that mean? Rupert has power of speech and clarity which is rare. You could spend decades with religious paraphernalia and not get a message like this. Thanks 🙏

[@zak.s2262]

This sums up everything. No need for any other teaching. Incredible!

[@integralsun]

Thank you Nisargadatta Maharaj for coining the phrase: “Be aware of being aware.”

[@lightbeforethetunnel]

This reality is nothing like what we've been taught.

[@DihelsonMendonca]

*I think these "Meditations" so soft, so calm are the very best videos on Rupert Spira. I learn more from that at a slow pace than all those other videos. We need more videos like that, with excellent image and excellent sound.*

[@thetranquilview5600]

Wonderful Thankyou ❤

[@DPSAX95]

I find that for self inquiry using the words "that which perceives" works much better than the "i"

[@lfm3585]

Best meditation I've heard. My mind tries to conceptualize as Rupert explains what our essential nature is, there is no exact conceptualization possible so I start going deeper to beyond thought, to pure sensations, then just a sense of being, maybe vibrations of thoughts wanting to form.

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The voice of God

[@tlittle6539]

Incredibly clear and powerful. Years of my seeking boils down to this.

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Man I had my spiritual awakening February 2019. I’ve listen to a lot of people and they’re all excellent. I just found this guy three days ago. Holy cow is he good. So thankful

[@ThatSilverDude]

Listen to Alan watts. Thomas Campbell and Robert Monroe. You're very welcome 😁

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@@ThatSilverDude Oh I’ve already listened to that. But thank you I appreciate the suggestion.

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[@kwixotic]

At the retreat I recently attended with Rupert presiding, and which he touches upon here is that crucial distinction between what he called the "via negativa"(that which we disassociate from as expressed in thoughts, feelings, perceptions) and then the subsequent integration of the Awareness experience with those outside objects. That completes the process

[@theawarenessmentor]

Such a masterful and deeply rich experience. Thank you.

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I am drowning in fear and terror and shame and guilt and grief. SO. MUCH. GRIEF. Drowning in all of it. Suffocating underneath the weight of all of it. It's too much. I can't take it. It's all too much. The pain: unbearable. True love, for me: impossible. I can't take the stress, the humiliation, the agony, the pain. I am tortured and overwhelmed.

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[@TheNeilDarby]

A true light in this world.

[@mulhergato40]

Best meditation ever! Best teacher ever! 🙏🙏🙏

[@Namelessbeing1234]

Thank you for ur teachings 🙏🏼❤

[@omkringy]

After reading Adi Shankaracharya’s AparokshAnubhuti this meditation was just amazing!

[@rajantp1763]

Love you Rupert... You are awesome.. You are me...You are conciousness itself... I am one with you.. Thanks for making me realize of my own self... I know you now conciousely... Subjectively... life is not an objective experience... It is subjective... Thanks for getting me rid of all the pains of objective.. egoistic and conditioned world of nonrealistic...Illusioned.. Dream like life... I am nothing...nothing is me.. I am only nothingness...

[@kwixotic]

You are FIRST nothingness and once having thoroughly internalized the Awareness, you then become Everything.

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@@kwixotic Sounds good to me.

[@lousialb8962]

I find greater depths each time I listen. It's amusing and exciting when something I've heard before, even something that has been profoundly revelatory, continues to unlock more doors. Heartfelt gratitude, Rupert, for your miraculous experiential guidance 🙏

[@kimelzen6951]

The ultimate satsang. Rupert's representation of the nature of reality is so obviously and deeply true as to end all discussions on the matter. I am infinitely grateful to you, my dear. One with you all.

[@RogerDrayton]

WoW...Relatively speaking, it's an absolute privilege to encounter such clarity and to be able to understand and start the day enveloped in this understanding is beyond words...Thanks for posting...I A(nama rupa)M !!!

[@JuanHugeJanus]

Clarity... beyond words, nobody are able to conclude atman or anatman!

[@lilithschwarzermond7342]

Excellent.

[@williamlawrence3661]

Thank you Rupert. You help reveal the joy that is there. I shall keep listening... with loving kindness, William

[@WillDanceAlone2U]

The clarity in Mr Spira teaching! It is so simple, so practicable. Consciousness appearing as a world. This is so much fun! Laughter. Then silence. Thank you for posting.

[@deepakchaudhary8560]

Only the dreamer is infinite but the truth is finite , the dreamer is dreaming of his dream to be true and all resonating at the same frequency relates to the dreamer but every other day he does loses path and bringing his perceptions and conclusions into play of is own dream.. and world says what a marvelous man he is. Take care

[@Mr3c2b1a]

Thank you brother

[@saraswathivijayapalan6048]

Wonderful very nicely explained I am able to understand clearly what I have read in scriptures I am so grateful to you Thank you

[@GOzoRAW]

I had to replay some parts over and over to make sure I understood thoroughly. Absolutely awesome. Thank you @RupertSpira for your translucent clarity.

[@beatrizlothrop4103]

I found this meditation a profound and actually experienced teaching. Thank you Rupert for this gift starting the 2021 year for me.

[@JohnnyCatFitz]

Thank you for this video of Rupert's talk. It's so amazingly chock full that any ten minutes of it can be a contemplation all on its own. He is sharing so many pointers while simultaneously being a pointer. And I may be finally ready to recieve such poitings. How fortuitous for me to find th is years old talk. Many thanks

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So crystalclear, that I must say, oh great that I saw Yoy video right now ! It gives me peace of mind ! Thank You !💐

[@robertoziemer1703]

Amazing. Astonishing clarity capable of silence our minds and change our perception of world forever. Thanks for sharing what and who you are Rupert.

[@JuanHugeJanus]

Clarity... beyond words, nobody are able to conclude atman or anatman!

[@laurentg4376]

Méditation de maître, merci de nous amener ainsi d’épuration en épuration à cette nudité d’esprit où seul le silence a sa place ! 🙏

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Thank you!

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Thank you so very much.

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Hello Mary, nice meeting you here; instead of Facebook (-;

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[@mrnibelheim]

Quite honestly, the most clear inquiry into experience I have ever encountered . But I almost missed the most important part - the end...simply mind-blowing. If Nagarjuna himself could have guided this meditation he would probably have said much the same: it's all open-ended, ultimately.

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If you are here now. You need not look anywhere else, you are here

[@yogipaulo2267]

I know the Rupert has got a deep understanding of the nature of reality, which is really great to hear amongst all the purists non-duelity teachers I have heard, I find them a bit extreme and impractical, but possibly a bit of humour would not go amiss during these satsangs. Thank you. Blessings, Yogi Paulo.

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THANK YOU RUPERT !!

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I simply love this man.

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The end of all seeking. Be here now

[@marynatani7300]

When I was a child I didn’t want to talk because I was sure that everything had been said before. Now I know why.

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Great discourse very practical and useful...........!!

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Thank you❤❤

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Only awareness is.

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Superb!

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Thank You very much for so kindly sharing. With Love 🌹

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"Vishnu sleeps, floating on the shoreless cosmic ocean, and we are the stuff of his dreaming." - Pi x

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[@garthly]

Who started all these gurus sitting with a flower arrangement on their right, each one having a rather simplistic set of ideas, which they repeat in numerous videos, with a lot of pregnant pauses, and soporific delivery? Spiritual masters have great vitality, they love life, are full of great compassion. They throw the moneylenders out of the temple. They have endlessly new streams of responses to people, based on the individual’s particular character and predicament. How would you feel about a doctor who handed out the same prescription to all the patients?

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Yeah, you would probably prefer a guru who sits on an elevated podium wearing beads and lighting incense

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Wonderful!

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Thank you

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I have no words

[@radicalhonesty3628]

I'm in a weird situation with a man. I think I love him, but... I don't know if this thing we have is actually healthy, or really just another trauma bond. I need prayers. Him and I both do, that whatever this is between us, will ultimately be for our own healing. And that we will co-create something that is loving and magical and beautiful and happy and wonderful and miraculous and healthy, together. Love and/or friendship to last lifetimes...

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[@comicmanga888]

Why do we feel separate ? Is a veil both on memory of who we are!

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Rupert Spira videos elicit the recognition of the infinite number of flower arrangements.

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haha

[@rivercrow8429]

The finite in me is all i can use to experience the infinite i.

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Hi. _Enjoy your day._ 🔥🔥

[@DavidPerez-yw4zs]

I don't understand why is so important to realize that all thoughts, feelings, perceptions,etc occur in that so call awareness or empty infinite space and all sort of fancy words. I'd like these gurus to explain with plain words how to deal with emotions or feelings which cause on people anxiety, anger, frustration and all sorts. I womder how would an enlightened person act if their family was threatened with violence?

[@ceeIoc]

They would try and remove themselves from danger. What does that have to do with anything?

[@cathycadena9500]

Hi, I know that you commented a year ago, but I thought I would respond with a suggestion for you. Look up a gentleman named Neville Goddard. You can find many of his lectures (he passed from this world in 1972), on a youtube channel called "100k Watt". Phenomenal man and he literally changed my life. Also, others on YT read his lectures and books. A few are Brian Scott from "Reality Revolution", Lila from "Nevillution" and another one who reads his books and lectures is Josiah Brandt. I have had all the same questions. You also would probably find a book called "Reality Transurfing" by a Russian physicist named, Vadim Zealand, extremely fascinating. It would be worth your time to check these out. And good luck with your journey. 😊

[@maithamalmatar5523]

1. you are not your feelings, emotions and thoughts 2. whatever happens in the universe is the best for you 3.enlgihtened people have feelings and emotions too but the difference is how they see the thing. their level of consciousness determines how to see things.

[@juanguirao]

You deal with emotions or feelings, perceived threats by placing your identity on awareness and not on the body or the brain which is subject to those emotions and perceived threats. If you manage to transfer your sense of identity to awareness these things lose power over you and you may experience enduring peace and happiness. The problem is most people really want to identify with their body, thoughts, and emotions, for various reasons, and then cannot find relief from the resulting suffering. Regarding the threat of violence, you can identify with awareness and still act appropriately to prevent the violence, but without the psychological suffering.

[@rocorobert]

I salute you extensions of mine... or otherwise I salute myself through you, yous... ❤️

[@esterhp8298]

Lovely Brillant though to learn much deeply imagination of awareness the fact of perception of emotion feelings of every human being of our self alone and to others to overcome Fears Love ❤️

[@peterscherba4138]

I liked the talk between Rupert, and Sam Harris, who agreed mostly with this newly (accepted) revealed truth. I still don't know or don't think that Sam fully agrees with all objects NOT being separate.

[@integralsun]

Very effective sleeping aid.

[@sallyarterton2702]

My physical conception and birth took place outside of my awareness. It happened to me but I didn’t experience it.

[@peterscherba4138]

I COMPREHEND that my perception (with my causes, effects) places me here and I experience the world in or from my mind! BUT there has to be a dream (mine) WITHIN a (larger) dream (GOD'S) mind (UNIVERSE) because I cannot see my creations of grains of sand, a solar system, on and on. These objects exist whether I perceive them or not. Yes, I agree that IT'S all IN consciousness BUT IT'S not all in my consciousness when I don't look AT it.. I've always understood The Absolute contains everything. And IT is Consciousness!

[@jackp.shaark2739]

The only thing flat-earthers fear, is sphere itself.

[@readywriter77]

Lol

[@TheCreate21]

Again Ty-👌

[@tekanobob]

I like the analogy of the fact that flat earth used to be believed until it was proved otherwise, so its easy, these days, to prove that. but I find very little evidence that consciousness is either finite or infinite. Im one of those scientist types that belives Consciousness is emergent from complexity and we will discover this soon in AI, Im liking the God / Love / Happiness anology though and trying to remain open minded

[@simonc772]

All these spiritual teachers just state the obvious, and the obvious does not reside in words. We don't need to awaken because it is what it is. You don't need divine connection to be explained, it is what it is. Spiritual teachers bleet on and on, at least the ones on KZbin do anyway

[@spiritlightpajic7299]

💟Thank Y😇u Rupert🪷 for Being As The Clear🌅Transperency for God's lnfinite Intelligence to f l o w⛲ through and Reveal lTS PURE KNOWING 🙏Namaste 🦋

[@IAM-ct8eu]

He knows I do I remember

[@butubuta]

Please, someone help me. If awareness and consciousness are the same, who is aware of the consciousness or the awareness?

[@abdulrashid-iy8lt]

Yes it is same. You can say consciousness is conscious of awareness or you can say Awareness is awareness of consciousness

[@paarkour83]

I feel so bad of this. Ok and if I can’t sit straight or lie down without pain, also cannot breathe properly.. then what? This just remains a dream for me :(

[@333-u9o]

I recommend looking into Neville Goddard here on youtube. 'Neville and the Law' is a good channel. Also 'Nevillution'. Blessings ✨

[@johnackerman9277]

What produces the content of our awareness?

[@verafleck]

1:05:03 and till today we say"the sun is rising"....

[@devinramos6317]

Wow!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏♥️♥️♥️❤️❤️

[@lfm3585]

What I'm having trouble understanding is what is the world? These patterns,forms and shapes that appear in Awareness are not random... which means there is something to figure out here. Also is it possible to experience the world as Awareness or only as a limited-self through the mind?

[@piñatoloco]

The mind doesnt exist, it is symbolic for what already IS and that is YOU which is your Creative Heart which IS awareness..By being yourself you can know all things and even yourself. Enlightenment means you know YOU...its not a difficult. All which occurs happens inside of you. These shapes you see are not shapes at all, it is the perception of reality that you see these things which are actually Nothing. They can be readily changed if you discover yourself.

[@cmhardin37]

What if you grasp it and feel it but don't know if you're feeling it because it's not as profound as you think it's supposed to be? Is there supposed to be an aha light bulb turning on moment?

[@masondnatube]

I don't know if I've missed something or if anyone could correct me. He says that all experience happens in awareness. That 'things' externally, ie a chair, are only known about IN awareness so he says they must be WITHIN awareness, not actually external. But what if awareness is just like a camera lens, taking in what actually exists externally. So rather than the chair being in awareness, the chair is external and awareness is just seeing it through its lens?

[@renko9067]

No. Rupert isn’t guessing. He’s speaking from direct experience, which is the point of the direct path or Zen, meditation, etc.. The difficulty for teachers is speaking to different levels of students, who respond differently to certain descriptions or explanations. If one watches a number of Rupert’s videos, one will see that he addresses that. As one example, he uses the words awareness or consciousness, but also uses the Zen term One Mind. But he also acknowledges that the ultimate is incomparable and that it’s beyond name or description.

[@masondnatube]

@@renko9067 thanks for taking the time to reply Renko :)

[@masondnatube]

@@user-ld9sl9ko7g thank you for that info and taking the time to reply 🙂

[@pouyairanitalab3162]

Who plays the musics that are at the start of these meditations ? they are so beautiful

[@jamesthomas1244]

At the very end of the video it says: Music by Brian Crain.

[@shaunthehumble4377]

The whole Enchelada in one Bight