The Fear of Death and Dissolution

[@stateofstasis]

" sleep is not the absence of awareness it is the awareness of absence "...never heard such an incredible thing about the sleep process !!

[@ElleAshterra]

I added that quote to a pile of Rupert Spira quotes that is quickly piling higher 😊

[@Queenwraith]

@Present Davie because we’re finite, awareness isn’t

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

@@ElleAshterra I feel ya

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

@Present Davie Only seemingly, in the mind which is a dissecting instrument bound to time and space phenomena, including the conditioning and limitations. The real "you"/I is very much aware of being aware. Being aware of ourselves, is the highest "form" of human experiencing. Not as a thought, or a concept, of course.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

@Present Davie Because you are not yet realized as the Buddha(The Awakened One ). Neither am "I", yet. You are that, always. Same way with all human beings. Rupert, Sadhguru, Mooji are fully present always. Awareness is aware of sleep, even "deep sleep". Deep sleep takes place in awareness. Everything comes and goes in awareness. Really nice name by the way, adding the "Present". Namaste

[@rinarina5799]

Love this man. Love his voice. Love his eloquent sober approach. Thank God for this beautiful BEing

[@christinemiller230]

Absolutely perfect explanation. Rupert has such a gift with words and metaphors 🙏❤🙂

[@garytison5306]

Yes he does.

[@carlosirles4710]

blue water colour eyes of christine like the ocean of consciousness!!!!

[@tomsortore8301]

What a beautiful man. thank you dear lord for his insightful wise man

[@squamish4244]

I struggle with a terrible fear of death and eternal damnation and teachers like Rupert, who give straight but kind answers (some of the Zen teachers are annoyingly elusive on this issue), are really helpful.

[@cabsrhere8897]

If I am Consciousness and I am currently experiencing myself through this vessel, will I no longer experience myself again once this vessel ceases to function?

[@squamish4244]

@@cabsrhere8897 Yes, that's all true, but I haven't recognized that in the depths of my being...yet :)

[@reubenatlantis5338]

Valar try ayahuasca ,you will be understanding

[@thomasbrouwer2771]

One of the most powerful I have seen from Rupert. Super insightful.

[@Josytt]

There’s not many people who really “get” reality, Robert is a treasure.

[@markatyoutube]

The strange thing is that his vision of death scares me. I don’t desire dissolution and I would try to avoid it. I’d rather continue with limited qualities, accompanied by suffering but also joy.

[@sarasousasantos7751]

This has splattered my brains across the multiverse. I “felt” it with a knowing that is ageless

[@richardeidemiller6739]

I love this mans teaching. That being said I believe most of us don't have a problem with everything leaving when we fall asleep because we believe it is temporary and all we know and love will return. I have no problem with the loss of the self save for the longing to see those that have passed.

[@alfogel3298]

Brilliant! Meher Baba also said: “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 All love to all, Al

[@TheJooberjones]

There is no death or birth just the eternal oscillation and transmutation, cosmic love energy enjoying itself, benign rhythms of the absolute.

[@marilynhart-hutchison1815]

Thank you ~ Enjoying the rhythm of the words as they express the content they carry. At least a couple layers there. Not to mention the encapsulation of “Truth” in one pithy phrase. I got a breath that brought a smile ~

[@cabsrhere8897]

If I am Consciousness and I am currently experiencing myself through this vessel, will I no longer experience myself again once this vessel ceases to function?

[@TheJooberjones]

@@cabsrhere8897 I cannot experience myself, I am myself. There is no subject and object distinction. What else could one experience besides myself? Theres nowhere to go.

[@cabsrhere8897]

@@TheJooberjones but there is only the Self and all apparent objects are modulations of the Self. In order for the self to know itself, it must localise as a finite mind. Once that finite mind is no longer operational, then there is no vessel in which to view through, therefore presumably there is only awareness aware of itself (as it is in deep sleep and before the experience of this finite mind). Surely that experience is simply nothingness/non-being/void. Which to me is exactly the same outcome as an atheist would conclude

[@TheJooberjones]

@@cabsrhere8897 theres no such thing as nothing, by definition. Aliveness is not limited to the human mind/sensory experience. There is no death in the sense you’re describing, as it refers to a non-existential state.

[@JonnyChaos]

One of the best i've seen for a while this.

[@tslow1829]

I applaud his skill in explaining profound experience in simple words, especially those analogies.

[@safahummel9396]

What an incredible explanation? Sleep is the Awareness of Absence ✨✨ thank you Rupert for your wisdom 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@WonderingAboutThat]

Thank you, very profound

[@ISAM.001]

It was so warming to hear this woman describe something so relatable.

[@arxhitgarg]

Same! Rupert's reply is surely interesting and illuminating too. What are your thoughts on this now?

[@Liyah-encyclopedia333]

Greatly relieved my death anxiety

[@mabelhoo887]

Indeed, knowing this truth has set me free. Thank you Rupert! So grateful to you n all your teaching. U are an amazing teacher!

[@iamthatiam44444]

I fell into this absolute peace state for a short while but I was so at peace I did not realise it until I came out of it and the ego (separate self) could put labels on it, then there was the dance, I want it, I fear it! I want it, I fear it🙈😜

[@anantsingh7707]

He has totally mastered Vedanta... very gifted with words.

[@helenormes404]

Wow I have never heard that voiced so clearly, immensely helpful. Thank you 🙏❤️

[@bangaliyogi]

Thank you !🕉🙏

[@danielluks9384]

After having accepted Rupert's sharing, I have this feeling that between dying "definitively" and dying every day during deep sleep, it is this last version that I "prefer". But of course I have no "experience" of the other version, a priori definitive. In other words, I remain attached to this alternation which allows me, for example at this moment, to write this remark, to listen to Rupert and to live my life.

[@simonaschmidt]

Ruppie, you're a legend. ❤️🙏

[@taraclover4783]

Thank you Rupert💞

[@LuCasttro11]

The Absolut Truth contained in every single sentence. Brilliant!

[@markleakey1797]

Incredible answer 🙏😊🙏

[@anthonybajada2285]

It makes the world go away ✨❤️🔥🔥✨

[@dsper1]

Fear is one thing and the perceptions of fear is another. The perception we have about fear is the one that is troubling us not fear itself. The narrative we run in our head about fear should be identified let it run its course and then understand the futility of it

[@pjdeli1]

Your explanation saved me ! Thank so much !

[@beingfree7140]

Thank you so much for this

[@TaxemicFanatic]

Never understood much on the fear of death, but the fear of dying I can understand more. Painful, slow, humiliating.

[@Julio_Fiss]

Exactly, I'm not afraid of death itself but of the pain and suffering that comes in the process of dying...

[@steffehjertquist]

Agree and I think death is a relief and we all become in peace within the realm of unconditional love, but no one will suffer and just lay there and wait with a huge stress and extreme pain. It’s not a worthy ending🙋‍♂️🙏

[@zain4019]

I agree. I’ve never feared death, even when I was very young, and through circumstances of life, at times I’ve even longed for the end. It’s never brought me the least fear. I’ve felt deeply for a long time that it is simply the journey back home, though I can’t say why I’m so sure of this. Learning about the reality and possibility of resting in our own being through being aware of our own presence, the experience itself is like a death - it’s wonderful, the freeing of human limitations. Resting in the Heart is really all I’ve ever wanted, and through the grace of the Beloved, like many, have found.

[@steffehjertquist]

@@zain4019 Yes, a very good perspectiv on life. Your words: ”The journey back home”, was something really beautiful to read... that is exactly what my feeling have been all my life (is now 61 yo). That kind of words is a way to show compassion to perhaps someone suffering right now. I send you peace, happiness, compassion, unconditional love and a Namaste from cold 🥶 Sweden🙏🕉👍

[@garvitasingh29]

I believe the suffering arises because of the fear of death. So the main issue still remains overcoming the fear of death. Once that's done the suffering won't be painful. So that's why I am working on my panic attacks, because things aren't scary our reactions make the suffering worse

[@countessnancyellen]

brilliant explanation thank you

[@feelsokayman3959]

The moth and lamp allegory was so fitting!

[@Redribbon28]

Bit like when you go to Alton towers for the day "it was such a fun day, I loved it but I can't wait to see my bed tonight" life is amazing but we can't wait to be at peace again

[@dba4292]

Because when we go to bed at night we are fairly certain we get our life back in the morning, that is the difference Rupert. I am shocked no one in the audiences has explained this after their initial question.

[@danielluks9384]

I understand you very well. Indeed, after having accepted Rupert's sharing, I have this feeling that between dying "definitively" and dying every day during deep sleep, it is this last version that I "prefer". But of course I have no "experience" of the other version, a priori definitive. In other words, I remain attached to this alternation which allows me, for example at this moment, to write this remark, to listen to Rupert and to live my life.

[@RobCaldera]

Had the same exact thought and was wondering if anyone else here did. Surprised that it’s so few. Sleep is a poor analogy for death.

[@glynemartin]

Someone please go purchase Rupert his Thug Boss Glasses of love & wisdom - and the cigar that complements them...he fully deserves it.

[@pilargarcia6724]

Muchísimas gracias!!!!

[@davidthomson802]

0:32--0:36, six wonderful seconds in which the content of Rupert's teaching acquires a felicitous and I'd guess accidental corroboration from the form. For my part I''ve come late to Rupert...only heard of him a few months ago, and in the score (possibly two score?) of clips I've seen of him I've never once seen the camera waver towards the questioners. Excellent. And now here's the perfect exception. A woman with a youngish voice comes to a teacher and says teacher (excuse my making this part of a more universal dialogue) I fear death and I am old. Perhaps the cameraperson cannot believe this and swings the camera towards the woman. And what we see appears at first to be the form of the woman. But it is in fact a superimposition of the form of one woman upon another. Of the "true" form of the woman we must remain content to speculate. Hints, vague outlines, that sort of thing. A lovely parable to illustrate Rupert's reassuring words that we ought not to fear our relinquishing of these forms in death anymore than we ought to fear relinquishing them every night as we relax in to sleep. "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." I suppose that was the apostle Paul, if memory serves. And if I'm understanding Rupert aright, we all, all of us, always already know who the Lord is. Is it not we, ourselves? Our unbroken awareness? Well, nice chatting. It's getting late and I'm off to get rid of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions! Looking forward to it. Aaahhhhh!

[@coreyyandle2142]

That was absolutely beautiful.

[@ddueicy]

Thank you

[@MarcosBetancort]

The question is, having heard this, would you want to fall asleep knowing that you will never wake up again? I'm sure the answer would be different.

[@steffehjertquist]

A good thougt, really👍! I think most people are afraid of loosing control of the body during deep sleep. If you knew you are going to die in the sleep a special night, you are scared but have to accept it (maybe it would be ok if you suffer from a long, hard disease) and if you knew you definately wouldn’t die that night is the safe state. The unknowing frightens a lot, I think!

[@MarcosBetancort]

@@steffehjertquist the limited self is said that it dies or dissipates. Nobody in a non terminal illness goes to sleep terrified, because is a rest for the next morning. But would be terrified before falling asleep if knew would never awake again as a limited self. People like sleep only as part of everyday life and not for its own sake as to be always sleeping and never waking up. But my knowledge adds to the fact that in Christ we have assurance of a future existence that is not like sleeping, but awake in a more perfected way. This for those that have been united to Him in His resurrection by love.

[@steffehjertquist]

@@MarcosBetancort Hi Marcos! I’m not afraid of death and deep sleep myself, but what I beleive I think many are. In my core I feel the Self as the container of perceptions in the void of the divine source. I was born christian, but converted to the buddhism, because I don’t beleive in a creator of this universe. Nothing is created (just my beleife) because then it is some form of duality- ”The God and the creation”. If there are a God, then we are all in that Gods mind and this appearance is an illusion of that, because we are just seeing the ”mind of God”. That, or this... there cannot be a God ”as a creator” because the universe have no startingpoint, and therefore there is now need for a God for the sake of creation. (Hope you can understand my english, my native language is swedish🥲)! There are Gods in religions, but I don’t beleive in a God as a creator. Jesus for me was an extraordinary man. Sorry, but my beleive is that all living is in and from the same source from the devine and therefore I can not think of a single person (Jesus) to be more of that than anybody else! You, me, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Trump... we are all the same. Not more or less devine than a little chicken in my garden👍🙏🕉

[@MarcosBetancort]

@@steffehjertquist you can hold to a sort of idealism in Christianity and not need to change to a another practice. These things are hard philosophical issues, and our experience does not entail we will have the right interpretation of them. Jesus christ makes all the difference in view of other religions and thoughts. He is risen, he has conquered death physically. He gives life where there is sleep and death.

[@steffehjertquist]

@@MarcosBetancort Yes, but I do not beleive that a man, or a woman for that sake, can arise from the death. I think the bible can point to very good things but in my more practical way that is just another story. I’m not religious in that sence but lives my life that everyone is equal. Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha are not ”more” than any other of all concious beings. All things are just concepts of something we don’t know, because everything comes out of the absolute nothingness... AND NO ONE knows nothing about that. We humans only laborate with words in an unknowing field of energy. The real fact is: No one knows for real what energy is either! Even that is just a word for something we don’t have a clue about. We can call energy for panncake, because we don’t know what materia in quantumphysics is either way or another. I truly accept all religions, all human beings, all animals, all living nature and of course ALL people born in this universe that believes in God of creations😍🙋‍♂️... but we humans has now answers to anything. That is my compassion and to be kind to all and everything!! That’s all for me and THANKS for your reply🙋‍♂️🕉🌺

[@luiscaceres6921]

qué maravilla, gracias por la explicación. Wonderfull, many thanks for the explanation

[@razoo9]

Rupert is the best ❤ ❤

[@susheelapanekat7756]

Thankyou 🙏🙏

[@shobaneshwari]

A very genuine question

[@sumanaghosal5072]

Excellent at the end 😍😍😍😍😍🌺🌺🌺

[@Julio_Fiss]

I don't think comparing sleep to death is a good comparison, the reason we like to sleep is because we believe it will be temporary, that we will come back from sleep soon and experience our life again, death is permanent, because of that some people fear it, although if you are suicidal you may look forward to it...

[@musicisthelanguageofthecos8266]

You are quite right....I was hoping that she will tell Rupert exactly this but she didnt and we lost a good chance to listen to what he had to say to a really tough question. !

[@richardeidemiller6739]

Agreed. I wrote the same thing before I saw your comment. As a woman the thought of never seeing loved ones that are gone again is what saddens me. Nothing else causes me fear.

[@TheJooberjones]

If death is permanent, how were you born?

[@Julio_Fiss]

@@TheJooberjones Even if there's reincarnation, your current life will be gone forever, and you may be attached to it...

[@SharpChronofighter]

All there is in the Universe, perceivable by human senses, is Energy. Science also states it. Energy vibrates and resonates from Quantum Level up to the vast manifested Universe as we know it. Some very advanced contemporary Physicists describe the Quantum Level also as the Ocean of Consciousness. Back to Energy... Energy can't be destroyed, can't die. it flows and transforms itself, on both micro and macro levels. Vedanta teaches that this Energy is conscious. It really is Consciousness, Universal Consciousness, which is All there is. We are basically Consciousness. We come from there and we want to go back there, like the Moth moving towards the Light that Rupert was talking about. Through experiences, study and deep meditation, we should dissolve our Ego, which is the Medium through which we perceive this World, and that we wrongly identify as Ourself. What we are attached to is this Ego, which is not our true Nature. Our Ego is like the dress we wear to move around in this World. It is a necessary Medium we have to use in this level of Manifestation, it is definitely not what we truly are. What dies and eventually reincarnates is the Ego, which is finite in Time and Space, not what we really are: a spark of Infinite Consciousness. Death is simply the transformation of our Ego into another one. What is beyond that Ego, the real Us, is eternal. If we fear Death is because we give it a connotation which is not real; the fact that it is the end of everything. The Ego fears Death. But Death is simply a transformation of Energy/Consciousness, which is Eternal by definition. It's a passage, so to speak, a migration from one Form to another. What dies is a particular Ego, or Form, which gives birth to another one, another dress for our Consciousness to wear. This is the chain of Reincarnations, which will continue in (finite) Time and Space until we become truly aware, enlightened. Which means when we fully discover and integrate our true Nature (Self), which is beyond Space/Time, and consequently also beyond any further Death/Transformation. At this level of Evolution, we don't need to believe anymore, because we know, and we know because we truly have become what we know. We finally Are. True Knowledge, as true Love, is the Absence of Separation as Rupert says... it is perfect, complete, pure Integration. You can also call it Bliss, or Paradise... 🙏

[@iamruslan-zf7up4zz3o]

Класс! Так просто и понятно )) Thank you so much, Rupert!

[@JokisenTontsa]

This is where I've been for some time myself and I know exactly what she's describing. But I also wonder when Rupert has said he didn't have any kind of event himself or a moment, and this understanding can happen so quietly that the mind doesn't even realize it. Dying to the flame and experiencing the fear of dissolution of the ego seem like an event. His teacher Francis describes this moment of intense terror and the death of himself, but if I've understood correctly Rupert never had this kind distinct moment, but the truth revealed itself over time. It'd be nice to know how it was for Rupert.

[@cavallopazzo340]

Interesting. Do you happen to have a video link or further information about the event experienced by his teacher? I know Eckhart Tolle went through something similar and I also was about to get sucked into a void when deeply meditating but got extremely scared and distracted myself.

[@wikipunt]

Wow! I’m saving this vid

[@patriciavincent5076]

Amazing!

[@MrMrperfect123]

I’ve been afraid of falling asleep for so long. I fear the moment where the small i becomes absent. I also am afraid of letting this small i dissolve because its so anchored by the people in my life. Also because fear in general controls my life. I have social anxiety, depression, ptsd and intimacy problems. I need advice. I need a guide. Or maybe i just need to do the spiritual work and look within for guidance.

[@kolarz2128]

Attachments. You are strongly believing that you need certain things to happen, or not to happen, so that you can be happy. Thats false, you dont need, it's your desires that makes you feel that way. You can be free from them by seeing their falsness.

[@SamuelFord88]

Bloody hell that was what I needed to hear

[@teddybear9029]

When I go to sleep I know hopefully I will wake up next morning so how can you compare it to dying? What a ridiculous metaphor!

[@ThePurpleLlamaGetsIt]

What is love? The absence of the sense of separation. Wow! That's Foreigner's question answered emphatically for me

[@raquelwebb13]

Do not stand By my grave, and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep- I am the thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glints in snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain. As you awake with morning’s hush, I am the swift, up-flinging rush Of quiet birds in circling flight, I am the day transcending night. Do not stand By my grave, and cry- I am not there, I did not die.

[@nickkapatais]

I don't understand. Death is not like sleep in the sense that death is permanent. You leave relationships, people, families forever. That's what people are scared of. How does this conversation help with that fear?

[@cerimite7674]

I was shown a new source of energy in a lucid dream and and asked a question about the crux of the outcome. This voice told me an element. This element, for my experience seems quite benign, so asked again stating another element. A neon light was presented with a same stated element. The solution involves the quantum sciences almost exclusively and at 65 years old and retired from a career in classical chemistry, I have had to learn and research a whole new realm of science. The scientific community is finding new knowledge in this area, but although the solution is not especially deep they still cannot envision it. It is somewhat frustrating to have this knowledge and not being able to trust giving it out or finding a way to. KZbin is a nice forum to vent and gain some small ability to organize material, although science on KZbin is extremely simplistic. Also, KZbin doesn't have a way to get material that is pertinent, if it is available.

[@VedantaKesari]

Upasani Baba said that Enlightenment is like dreamless sleep but with one big exception: in dreamless sleep we are aware of nothing but in Enlightenment we are aware of Infinite Bliss. Something else: yes, we look forward to sleep but clearly we must want to come out of out of dreamless sleep to the world of form and and personal existence. Swami (Papa) Ramdas called that "Divinized individuality." Sri Aurobindo hit upon this too (and some near-death experiencers). This all rests on the limitations of Advaita. God cannot be limited by oneness; God is multiple also.

[@cabsrhere8897]

If I am Consciousness and I am currently experiencing myself through this vessel, will I no longer experience myself again once this vessel ceases to function?

[@deleted.9727]

I love him so much

[@IsaiahMolina37]

Awareness can never be absent. Because if it were to be absent, something would have to be aware of that absence. So when you sleep and you dont dream. You are simply Being, Awareness Itself. Only to those who define/limit awareness as thought, can you conceive the possibility, that when you stopped dreaming you stopped being aware. When just like a thought awareness is there prior, during and the absence of that thought. Thought is not a limit on awareness as such, it is an activity of awareness.

[@colkadome]

Great video! I have a silly question: When we die, our tools and qualities (sight, sound, thoughts) are evaporated and we are supposedly freed back into a pool of empty awareness that encompasses a much larger area of space (or the “infinite awareness”). Does this larger awareness have its own tools and qualities? Does it experience anything? If it’s aware of something, wouldn’t we be aware of it too to some degree as we are a smaller part of it?

[@musicisthelanguageofthecos8266]

The whirlpool is a tiny part of the ocean and it has all the qualities and tools that the ocean itself possesses-however when it will ever manage to join the ocean and be an integral part of it(thats when you become enlightened and experience counsciously your own death) then it will certainly have the tools and qualities of the ultimate and eternal awareness which is the source of creation itself.

[@kristi1189]

Beautiful

[@peacockpaula4723]

Afternoon dear Rupert, how interesting is hard to believe how this is working and blends in. May I just ask you a question: why do we have to suffer defore dying? I don't see it right at all. Do you have an explanation to that? I looke at a friend of mine who sufered and I blamed God and others as well, why this, to us this is rather demonic to see somebody suffer, is not God, why is He, if is so good, alowing, this cruelty to hapen? Is this love as the holy books say?! Sorry I do not get it, I can't accept it. Are we ment to suffer before dying, no wonder I am so terrified, to be honest. Hope you'll give me a comforting reasuring answer that makes sense. Bless you and thank you.

[@JonnyChaos]

Can relate the shit out of this video.

[@shyamverma9515]

MASTER ji, Excellent Analysis, As they say in spirituality "Die to Live". Die means not Physically. I just want to ask Masterji How to avoid this "FEAR of UNKNOWN". Plz reply in detail. Thanks.🎉🙏🎉

[@benwilletts8250]

Do we not get nourishment from sleep? I enjoy going to sleep due to getting nourishment through the process which helps maintain the brain and other organs in the body and thus makes our experience more pleasant. Rupert has provided some good insights in other talks but I couldn't relate to his statements about sleep and death.

[@davidmatta2727]

The analogy of sleep with death is misguided. We are pretty sure we will wake up after a night sleep. Can we say the same after death?

[@Scrumpilump2000]

Yes. What comfort is there in knowing that after tonight's sleep, you are never going to wake up again? But why would you care? There's no one there to care. I don't want merely a grim ending. I want to continue and explore things. I don't want to just blink out forever.

[@davidmatta2727]

@@Scrumpilump2000 Yes. We want to uphold awareness. You say there's no one there to care but then we realize there is one, and it is me. We flock to spiritual guidance because of this sense of self-caring. Denying it, claiming we are seeking lofty non-duality in the absence of this self-care, should be an old cliche by now.

[@1TigerJo]

What about dreams in which I think and make decisions in my dreams, have feelings, see myself and loved ones who passed, and friends and people I don't know and when I fly in the Milky Way and see stars with faces and all the creative, imaginative stuff ?

[@1TigerJo]

@Vivek Rana How am I able to dream precognitive dreams? Like the time my ex hit a girl on a bicycle - I dreamed of what she looked like, age, haircolor, color of her bike and what intersection it happened at. Or the time I dreamed my professor shot himself. He was the professor of an Abnormal Psych class, had us keep dream journals amd read our dreams in class, I read a detailed dream of him shooting himself. He laughed. A short time later, I gave a ride to an old man at a bus stop in the rain. As I pulled into his driveway, he said his neighbor shot himself. I asked if was Dr Kirtley, he said yes. Or the time I dreamed my grandpa died and I thought I saw him in the middle of the night. The next morning I ran to tell my mother, she said no that he was fine. Then about a half hour later, she got the call that he'd been killed, pushing his stalled vehicle. I've had dozens of these kinds of dreams. I feel my dream state is more real than my waking state. I also floated up out of my body after a VW Bug I was in as a passenger, went off the side of a mountain. I saw my body below, felt no pain and wondered what I was doing there. I didn't care about my body and went into a kind of funnel of light, looked up, saw the light and was immediately there. A being of light greeted me. After some interaction, I was asked if I wanted to come or stay. I said I couldn't come, that my dad needed me. Then I woke up in an ambulance as I was being worked on. My mother and brother had suddenly left a year prior. Obviously, I wasn't dead, but I saw my physical body on the side of the mountain, and when I foumd myself floating, I felt immense peace and love. Theres's more than you think...

[@danbruno5945]

@@1TigerJo Everthing in the universe always makes sense in the end , Dreams are snippets of what afterlife/spirit is once your physical life is done

[@1TigerJo]

@@danbruno5945 Yes, it's like a perfect jigsaw puzzle. But, in dreams, I see the future, and I've been able to view inside other people's homes. I've dreamed of deaths, accidents and natural disasters, and have received messages and visits from loved ones who passed. I'm a prolific dreamer who has dreamed and learned from my dreams. There are dreams that are just working stuff out, and there are dreams where info is available for me to see. Dreaming of seeing inside someone's home that I've never been to, then seeing it for the first time, is shocking- I was there without my body. That's not afterlife. Dreaming of someone who died, then they die as I'd dreamed, isn't dreaming of the afterlife, the person here, died. Seeing a natural disaster in my dream then see the news the next day, isn't the afterlife.

[@danbruno5945]

@@1TigerJo or maybe afterlife is only a none stop brilliant dreams You knows those dreams that you don't want to end and you think dam when you wake up,I was once dreaming I was on holiday with hilary duff in Rome then woke up just when she was about to buy me dinner 😂 Dam

[@anastrawberry8047]

@@1TigerJo , wow, what intense experiences you’ve had! Thanks for sharing.

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

All fears are always in the future, included the fear of death.

[@Jimbo77789]

Hello! I have a question that's been on my mind about your philosophy. If love or happiness only comes from within, then why is extreme social isolation so bad for people? It seems we do need some external resources to feel self love or happiness, no?

[@anastrawberry8047]

I might be afraid of falling sleep. I for sure resist falling sleep, even when I’m super tired and “falling sleep” I instinctively try to wake myself up. And sometimes there is an internal conflict, a fight, a part of me trying to stay awake and my mental self reasoning “come on you have to sleep, you have to wake up early”. I always have resisted falling sleep, since I was little. I don’t know why. I wonder if it’s because I am afraid to fall sleep, I wonder if it’s because I’m afraid of death or simply afraid of losing control or afraid of whatever happens “on the other side”, in my dream. I wished she had said yes, that she was afraid to fall asleep, so maybe he will have shed some light on my issue. 💗

[@luis55ful]

Yes, in deep sleep the witness has no a thing or experience to be aware of, that's why Rupert says it's the awareness of absence.

[@adamfields5718]

I don’t fear relinquishing thoughts at night because I know I’ll wake up. I’ve had that positive experience and so my mind no longer has fear of sleep. Biologically I know I’ll wake up. There is no proof that we wake up spiritually after the physical dies, so how can the two be placed on the same pedestal? I understand the relinquishing of thoughts and the peace behind it but sleeping and death are two totally different aspects of life.

[@benji-5796]

It can’t it’s just a ridiculous comparison

[@danbruno5945]

I'm not scared of dying im scared of how I will die, Imagine if I fell from a plane and I had many minutes of falling and thinking about the impact and loss of everything all at same time

[@zackmano]

"Sleep is one sixtieth of death." -Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 57b

[@thunderbirdvg4797]

I do ressist falling asleep.... but I don't fear it

[@anastrawberry8047]

Me too. Do you know why we do it? Actually I wonder if I resist falling sleep because I am afraid of it...?

[@Aum_shantishantishanti111]

The death you fear IS the experience of love . Ohh I’m excited. Some of these truths that hit you make you think to yourself how preposterous all this worry really is . I often think to myself there is nothing to worry about ... ever . And then 10 minutes later I find myself worrying about something. Thank you Rupert your voices carries love and wisdom .

[@anthonykology1728]

at some point...we will have let go...

[@angus9021]

Um, the difference is, when we sleep, we wake up again. What am I missing here??

[@DanielColageo]

So if peacefulness is another word for awareness, then peacefulness must be the most empty thing.

[@TheFishstick92]

It’s like king Lear who is desperate to experience John smith’s peace. But king Lear is already John smith (pure consciousness) , all he ought to do is let go of his character

[@michaelnielsen3462]

Would love to believe Rupert, but: When I’m asleep, there’s absolutely nothing, no awareness.

[@sugarfree1894]

If you were not reasonably sure of waking up again, you would indeed fear going to sleep. Death is different. You don't wake up (as far as we know!).

[@abhi-gg8qc]

7:18 All you will lose is your limitations

[@TheSpiritofBeatbox]

Today I almost had it again. In a dream they lend me Dmt and as I smoked it for the first time in my life I felt a visceral terror. The reality was changing in an instant and right at the moment my own death grounded me to protect me because I seem to not be ready. I have been thinking, could it be that some souls are just not strong enough to manage such a jump into the abyss. I tell myself everyday its going to be ok and pure joy. Its my soul catching up with the natural body of god. Death is just a new begining. There is nothing to fear. Why afraid of the unknown if you dont know what it is. And then when the chance comes, I poop my pants and back off really hard and fast. I guess I will lol at me being this weak. Freaking dead!

[@Drifter4ever]

The woman is not agreeing with Rupert but is scared to stand by her original opinion. Rupert is making people say things as usual. You cannot compare sleep with death. You are not afraid of sleep because you know you are going to wake up. Tell people that the next time they fall asleep, they will never wake up, they would be scared and they would do everything to stay awake.

[@0214-g1r]

Guys, I am afraid to die, I am afraid to don't be able to talk, touch, love, think. I am afraid that I won't be able to do anything anymore, I am afraid that I won't be able to breath or to use my brain anymore, I will be just gone from existence, everything I have seen, did, though it will be just gone forever as well as me. That is the thing that scare me the most ( I don't want to think about that, but I can't, and I am 16 right now, but I still think about my death

[@Scrumpilump2000]

Hey, you're pondering some heavy questions! I feel the same way sometimes. Then I remember that I'm not going to be there (presumably) to feel sad about not being there! It's weird.

[@mikekonig]

The Knower of Brahman realises the entire world as the projection of his thought (Kalpana). The thoughts are also identical with Brahman as the various dream-objects are identical with the mind.

[@clckwrk0rng391]

If there are 20 fish in an aquarium and 1 dies, ok those things happen ... but if it's the fish you called Willy then suddenly it gets dramatic.

[@herbertcrappell8309]

Wow 🙏🙏

[@Mercurygamer72]

Kindly visit talk of rupert spira and swami sarvapriyananda on vedanta NY youtube channel.

[@Chaotist]

The Dance of the Moth

[@widipermono229]

🙏🙏🙏

[@nonchalant.observer]

At 2:00 he interrupts the woman and says "the reason that you look forward to sleep at night is precisely because everything that is not essential to you - your thoughts, your images, your memories, your activities, your relationships, your sensations, your possessions - are removed from you". It's his words, not hers. And then, at 3:37 he says "at the same time you tell us that you look forward to the removal of those objects during deep sleep". But she never said that, he has just repeated his own words. Don't anybody see this as the manipulation? I don't know about you guys, but I don't go to sleep to remove everything that is "not essential". I go to sleep because my body tells me "go to sleep or I'll crash right here". I would stay awake if I had energy and the ability to think clearly, but my body has limits. When I'm asleep, the dreams come. In these dreams I have the same personality as in my waking life. My dreams revive my memories, in my dreams I continue my daytime activities and relationships. Okay, it may be different during deep sleep, but you know what? Dreams is the part of my sleep cycle that I enjoy the most, and when I look forward to sleep, I definitely want to experience dreams. I'm not seeking removal of all sensations, at least intellectually.

[@droge192]

Sometimes we all need some tough love. This lady is grasping deeply at the pride and acquisitions of her life (sure, not material acquisitions but still - as she explains - the relationships and experiences she's collected over the years). Yes he is framing her comments according to the teachings, but he does this to try to help her let go of this 'social pride' she is holding onto.

[@patbriggsmbr]

She's talking about attachment to things that we perceive to be a part of us but which we are not. !

[@Queenwraith]

I’d love Rupert to debate Sam Harris

[@Queenwraith]

@Gil Monteverde He probably thinks he has in his own way. I saw a debate a while back with him on consciousness inc the one with Russell Brand and a few others and he seems to destroy them all. I follow Rupert so I just wondered what he would actually say to certain things