See Clearly Who You Are | Rupert Spira

[@Neti-Netti]

It’s nice to see so many of us come to non duality

[@Pfennigturm]

Wow, this is one of the best and most thorough explanations of our true nature, that I have ever heard. If intellectual understanding could get me to this beloved "big house" I would be there now. But, the way is different. Anyway, let's go! Thank you, dear Rupert, and Greetings to everyone on the path home!

[@peacenlove6502]

Rupert is running this show guys ...he is brilliant !! love him ....Lol

[@arshidmanj5587]

He is a great guide Masha'Allah ...

[@Venom_590]

What do you think about Hinduism now?

[@Venom_590]

@@shivanipandey8208 where i m bullying?

[@Venom_590]

@@shivanipandey8208 are you stupid or what?

[@shravan1010]

​@@Venom_590 why are you so attached to ur religion?

[@familyrani-w7f]

@@Venom_590Ego/Aham Vruthi again…

[@SirianXM]

The first time I've heard another person say one of the phrases that's been so important to me these past years: "Self-Abidance". Thank you Rupert, for being YOU 🙏

[@kathrynphillips3710]

Love the realization of what we give our attention to, we literally are shining the light of awareness upon it ,awareness is what and who we are, the Light that is shining bright eternally, like the stars 🙏

[@jbarry1692]

He has a great way of describing it

[@amomentwithlife1557]

I’m only the I AM!! Thank you so much for the light you shine on us. ☺️

[@alexcalugar2666]

Your not even the I am...just awareness.

[@ramdasormond395]

The Field and the Knower of the Field are not two. Thank you, such wonderful analogies you've given here.

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

Yes Rupert, we can use words to describe what we are not, but we can’t use words to describe what we are. To know what we are, the only we can do is to abide knowingly in pure consciousness. That is self inquiry

[@frederickalschuler4693]

Superb! The path. Inward, then outward. The characteristics of peace and fulfillment inherent in awareness.

[@sueannknoblauch6645]

That is where I am. Seeing what I am

[@kwixotic]

Very valid point Rupert raises here. The spiritual guide I was profoundly influenced by years ago was Stephen Wolinsky, a devotee of Nisargadatta. However, the guided meditation that influenced me which he produced was pretty exclusively the neti-neti which had a revolutionary impact for me at the time but then was limited for the very reasons Rupert elaborates upon.

[@katebeatham333]

Thank you Rupert. Love and blessings to all of us.

[@davidmickles5012]

Rupert is here hinting at the view in Tantra that goes like this.. Neti Neti is the teaching of emptiness - there is no self existence in all things. Yet there is the "self" that is the awareness or radiant emptiness of ubiquitous consciousness that is the recognition of the empty nature of the appearances. Finally, the appearances themselves are the radiant energy of ubiquitous consciousness. All is good 🙏

[@renakmans3521]

Much love to you!!

[@gameone6597]

Great talk on Hindu Advaita Vedanta. But, 1) he talks about Neti-Neti, Sanskrit, for "not this not this" and says that it's first step but not enough to see oneself. On the contrary, it is a very effective approach to see oneself (as many realised masters have said)! It is employed because, you can never see the seer as it is. It's not an object, I, the ultimate-consciousness-bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda) am always there all the time. I'm there right now. There's nothing that needs to be done to become it, I am that already, only my ego confuses itself with wrong identities. So all that one needs to do is remove those confused identities by Neti-Neti and what is left, the Self (sat-chit-anand) remains and is 'realised'! But, like every other approach, what works best for them depends on their Sanskaras (predispositions)! And 2) No schools of Advaita Vedanta stop at saying consciousness is apart from the material world. That in Hindu philosophy is the definition of Dvaita (Duality).

[@adunnou2075]

GameOne ok

[@bhuvaneswarinatarajan2583]

Well said 🙏🏽

[@gwgwgwgw1854]

Beautiful chain of concepts.

[@rishikris1740]

I ALWAYS COMES FOR THE FLOWERS

[@Yogi_Ram]

Thank you dear Rupert.. 😍👍👏🙌🙏 pranam.. love n regards from Tiruvannamalai..

[@antoinemorcos1321]

The end is very interesting. Thx Ruppert.

[@zamanahammedkhan4702]

നിജം നിർഗുണം നിർവികല്പം നിരീഹം! Thank you Rupert💖💖😘

[@djelalhassan7631]

Beautiful

[@petiteklutzy]

Brilliant ❤

[@tangotangoh]

Love the analogy of the small house and the big house and sitting between. It's just an analogy as how Jesus used parables or Zen masters tell stories. We need only to understand and go into ourselves, not extend the analogies into some intellectual discussion. 🙏🙏💞💞💫💫

[@kris4117]

Rupert. There is never a time when you are not clear.

[@PranavDasai]

you are space the clouds are object clouds can't exist without space

[@jeffreyprokopowicz9842]

Only the mind, body, or thoughts can be disturbed. Not the true self.

[@pravinraj2366]

Thank you ...🌹🙏

[@miles6875]

Always a treat when you upload a video. Loved it.

[@honestmicky]

Wow excellent video Rupert, thank you so much for posting, much appreciated : )

[@markrothery8719]

I stay aware all day every day. Always check myself and pulling myself back to awareness….have done for years. But I feel no peace. I feel no bliss or even much happiness…

[@alexcalugar2666]

Don't stay aware...stay awareness without you. Ego says I stay aware...awareness says is just me, awareness.

[@dolannnnn]

Amen Rupert amen 🙏

[@rjshrinathofficial1525]

10:28 my favourite answer begins

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Wahwah AhaAha wonderful Chamatkaric Vishmaypurna wonderful DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude dhanyabad dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad

[@davidsweeney111]

Who's running the show? Great question, and great answer! I knew the answer as the question was being asked, I am beginning to wake up, between the two houses maybe, makes me smile.

[@holonen]

Welcome home

[@Niko-xz5lk]

David. Awesome

[@SuperstarSridhar]

Congrats.

[@Pedro-s4k3y]

to see clearly who I am, I apply mental security.

[@andreac5152]

I understand that awareness is the thing out of which every experience is made, but for me it is not so obvious that experience is the same as objects, as Rupert seem to suggest.

[@SuperstarSridhar]

What are objects to you but perceptions, which are but experiences?

[@andreac5152]

@@SuperstarSridhar sure, but I cannot say my perception is absolute and I cannot exclude there could be something more. So this is just one of few options, a legit one, but not the only one. The noumen, the object per se, is unknowable, so it can well be just mind or something else. Surely, in the end of the story, we have only one interconnected reality where objects and subjects are two parts of the same relationship, but this is a different story.

[@SuperstarSridhar]

​@@andreac5152 Firstly, thanks for the beautiful line - 'In the end of the story, we have only one interconnected reality where objects and subjects are two parts of the same.' Isn't that the goal of all spirituality? To feel the universal oneness and the peace that follows? His explanation may not be the accurate one, but it is a plausible one as you yourself agreed. I've read somewhere that all paths are but methodologies to get to the goal. (hence they don't need to be all accurate) 'Just get the message and move on. Don't identify yourself with or obsess over any philosophy', Rupert himself says elsewhere.

[@jixie_93]

But I DO get disturbed by things that happen in my experience!!!

[@BryanRomaine]

Is there a video where he talks about the outgoing nature, he talks mainly about the inward journey. Sometimes I've felt I am the observer and the object... I've only had that once, in relation to energy in the body -- feeling that I was observing and also I was it. How do I find out what Rupert talks about next? In this experience, I had been sitting outside the small house but not in the big house. Often it has felt like everthing is outside -- observed -- the "outside, outside" along with thoughts emotions, etc. Sometimes I am vast and the body and experienced are inside. Blah -- difficult to talk about -- the question is -- where does Rupert talk about the outward journey. Great talk, great video. Thank you.

[@o.j5526]

So true 🥰🙏

[@Babysleephacks]

How do I overcome ego backlash when self inquiring Rupert?

[@ChristicChronicals]

observe the ego baby and then decide(make the choice) that you will not identify with what it ask/tells/inquires follow your heart all the answers lie within peace love namaste

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

On rare occasion I’ve seen, using psychedelics, several times, what I am, however, I seem to regularly forget the rope is a stick and think again and again it is a snake and or a shadow. The snake is full of suicidal thoughts and feelings, nihilism, pointlessness and other such shadows. The action figures dream is unpleasant much of the time. Why do I forget?

[@liyongli9189]

The thought tells you who you are is a phantom self(a concept).True SELF(essence) is the thought itself and thoughts can not grasp itself by conceptualization.

[@masoodahmed5214]

Are you successfully doing Meditation

[@braylathomas3811]

Is there an exercise or another video that can teach us how to do that

[@tstecksuan]

Interestingly the Chinese referred to the coffin as "big house", so death is returning to the "big house".

[@vickymooney6535]

I've never heard Rupert talk about the bible or his thoughs on the teachings of Jesus Christ. It would be interesting to hear his opinions on that.

[@vickymooney6535]

Connor Lepp Yes but what Rupert left out of that verse was this... Jesus said: I am the way, the truth and the life... No one comes unto the Father, but by me...

[@vickymooney6535]

Connor Lepp No because you need to read the bible and learn the teachings of Christ. There are so many prophecys from the Bible that have came true and are continuing to become true... MANY people have had near death experiences and never even knew what was written in the bible, what they saw in their experiences is what the bible teaches about... It was only AFTER their experience that they actually read the bible and were amazed... Check out Bill Wiese 23 minutes in hell for example.

[@vickymooney6535]

Connor Lepp I have watched many of Rupert's videos by the way... It's definitely interesting what he talks about.

[@vickymooney6535]

Connor Lepp I originally wondered what he thought about the teachings of Christ... Not just his opinion on "I am the way, the truth and the life" Anyway nevermind..

[@chimenerf]

Vicky Mooney but vicky. Also other religieus books like the koran theaches the same.

[@spiritfilled5758]

I don't unstated this, they're stre zebras things that disturbs . My son passed away 3 weeks ago and I am forever changed. How do I integrate this knowledge with my experience

[@goodsirknight]

Rupert you are some man

[@shubhamtiwari1415]

नेती-नेती

[@mirek857]

I would like to know, how can you be sure, there is "higher awarness" beyond you as person. How can you be sure, that awarness in not only quiet consciousness = quiet ego, as we naturally sense it and live it as human.

[@Toertsch]

There is no higher awareness beyond you, because you're it! What is missing is the knowledge of it inside the personal mind, which is an invention of yourself, the single awareness. This question is the definition of "looking outwards/elsewhere to find yourself" :) I don't know what one can do about it. I think a good method is to quiet the mind and its imagination and just stay there.

[@alfogel3298]

Toertsch : The mind must vanish. Meher Baba said it best: “Mind wants to know that which is beyond mind. To know that which is beyond mind, mind must go-vanish, leaving no vestige of itself behind. The humour of it is, the mind, which is finite, wants to retain itself and yet know Truth, which is infinite. This is the position of those who seek Truth through intellect. Few grasp this fact, and so most grope and grapple in vain. “ -Meher Baba

[@pdvidz2266]

It feels like I'm in the head and not limitless.

[@zitaani2581]

Me too. I thought i was the only one. I feel stuck now. This teaching is isolating

[@jon_wiggins]

How to fix this please?😅

[@devilshive]

At 10:28 look down to the first up next video name

[@nihil2100]

Can we make the political forces of the world hear this for a moment?

[@nihil2100]

Well, now that I think a bout it, the would probably shut him up...

[@edzardpiltz6348]

You are the political forces of the world! All part of the devine comedy. It's just so incredibly elaborate and thought out, that it looks like you could have never come up with such a complex storyline, or doesn't it? 😆😘

[@cinmac3]

I almost feel the process in our political world is happening the way it needs to. It's beyond my understanding why it's here, but it is.

[@mateusgam1234]

I could really use some enlightening words i guess.. Becouse i know i am what sees, or awareness. And that sense of self, is peaceful even when there is feelings of agony, fear, pain, and so on.. The thing is just.. that, i want to Be Here, live a fullfilling life. And most feelings/emotions that im feeling and have been feeling this life so far, has not been so fun/Joyful/loving/fullfilling in general ^^ and i can? Be totally okay with it ^^ but i would love to live the experience of loving my life 😅 And in kinda other words .. what now? Ive seen it, "i am enlightent" What now? I dont know.. seems like nothing really, yet, there are these heart based desires to live and try different things

[@Walizen]

This furnace is so hot even the fire is begging for mercy

[@chitraisenlightened]

your separarte self and the whole of the universe will have to compelety vanish to see clearly what you are..

[@mementomori5374]

I really dont know whats in and out anymore in my experience their is no such thing is this weird ?

[@soulwisdom82]

I don't understand what the “collapsing” means.

[@0000asdfasdf0000]

❤

[@albundy9597]

so the experience of the holocaust was caused by consciousness ?

[@NondualityChannel]

Yes...good pointers...but ultimately you also can't "see clearly who you are". The subject can never become an object to be seen. The eye can't see itself...the sword can't cut itself. Through neti neti the small house is demolished...and there is no big house...simply space without boundaries, walls, etc. If there are walls (a house) that too is demolished.

[@bashopoem]

Eric Putkonen not true. What is it that is aware of that space you describe? What happens when a whereness looks back at itself?

[@NondualityChannel]

The same thing happens as when you try to smell your own nose.

[@bashopoem]

Eric Putkonen whose nose?

[@NondualityChannel]

When the nose tries to smell itself...what happens? There is no who...I was just using the normal conventions of speech.

[@danieldanielsonricha]

You know that you are. That is, you know ‘I am.’ This knowledge is not derived through any medium such as a mind or a body, which could be unreliable, but rather it is known directly. It is the undeniable and ever-present knowledge that Consciousness has of its own being. It doesn't know itself as an object, because it's not an object. Yet awareness knows itself.

[@richardjacoby8425]

The buddha talks about the boat that takes you to the other side that is the mind quite. the mind make it your slave dont let it run you around like a mouse on a wheel

[@at-last]

13:30

[@glynemartin]

...in other words ...Neti Neti...is a somewhat Necessary, Necessary...prelude..on the "path"....

[@mohamedladhaladha7997]

We need a guru to help us see what we are not,then you remain with what you really are.

[@letgo1064]

No Body?

[@realmckoy1143]

I have seen no evidence that awareness is not just a product of the brain.

[@ernestweber5207]

And with what and how do you know that? So far, not much at all is known, scientifically, about what consciousness and awareness are and how the "brain" creates them. There are many hypotheses. It seems that our own subjective experience of awareness does not indicate to us a "brain" in there doing anything, and so, the evidence is your own experience itself, which is what this kind of teaching focuses on. If Awareness is ultimate and primal, then there is nothing that is actually prior to it other than an absolute. It is the which for which there is no whicher.

[@edzardpiltz6348]

You are so full of concepts that you don't even see them anymore. All you can ever know, is a projection inside your head (remember biology class?)! Even the idea of a head is just a concept of your projection. So what is all that talk about a brain producing consciousness? Meaningless gibberish, or at best a nice story to tell your grandchildren at bedtime... 😘

[@jamesrothwell7474]

Matter of brain does not produce consciousness. Listen to the conference of the near-death experiencers.

[@SuperstarSridhar]

Your own experience is the best proof. Have you had an experience that awareness did not witness? Awareness has to come prior to any experience or knowledge. Even the knowledge (or thesis) that 'awareness is just a product of the brain'. Can the product precede its source?

[@at-last]

9:15

[@at-last]

5:40

[@freeman669]

🐳

[@jaypalnitkar4400]

Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi_/\_

[@N8teyrve]

Ok so I’ve been doing the first half and see I am not a body/mind but the knowing of experience. So then how to do the second part?

[@byronev718]

I feel im on that stage too, but I understand it's not about doing anything that one goes beyond, kinda confusing tho, we want to do something but there's nothing to be done, namaste.

[@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr]

👾👾👾👾

[@robinaguenkel7534]

👍🇩🇪

[@edsparky7512]

👍🍩☕️🍀🙃

[@piehound]

@ about 7:08 *Is there anything we can do to disturb the space in this room ?* In a totally abstract sense (if that's even possible . . . to conceive anything in a totally abstract manner) . . . then no. The space would be independent of whatever happens in it. Because we have *said* so. But we could imagine another scenario. Consider setting off a nuclear device. That would certainly disturb the "space" for quite a while. And if the fallout lasts long enough (take Chernobyl for instance) . . . then yes the " space" would certainly be altered for some time . . . if not actually "disturbed." Conclusions ??? For one thing the hypothetical space is *not* independent of what happens in it. Just sayin'. Take it or leave it. And as far as "consciousness" or "awareness" . . . we are aware till we aren't. I and the bible say death ends human awareness. Of course there is the possibility of "rebirth." Just sayin'. Of course i understand Mr. Spira's analogy. He's positing an "internal" or mental space which we can try and make still. That is stop the thought processes from disturbing "pure" awareness. But in my experience this happens only very briefly. But i'm a believer. Strange things happen. *THERE'S MORE IN HEAVEN AND EARTH THAN IS DREAMT OF IN MY PHILOSOPHY.* Last quote by Shakespeare. Thank you Mr. Spira.

[@alansgjw]

Learn nothing here.

[@sanekabc]

This explanation is an ego trap. You are your thoughts. The moment you say I am awareness, you are lost again in identification. Granted, a much more grandiose identification than with your body or thoughts. Who am I? An illusion. Full stop.

[@SuperstarSridhar]

I am an illusion and that doesn't confuse you and others? Puzzling,

[@sanekabc]

@@SuperstarSridhar I agree with you. I can't recall the context in which I said it. But yes, to say it as a stand alone statement is not useful and confusing.

[@markie9739]

@@sanekabc Just a couple of weeks ago when I started to watch Rupert's clips, I used to get really irritated by his calling questioners 'you awareness' for a similar reason as yourself but the longer I listen to him the more I feel drawn inwards and the less this bothers me, in fact, quite the contrary;).