The 'I' That Shines in the Midst of Our Experience (Meditation)

In this meditation we begin by contemplating 'I', the name anything that knows itself gives to itself. We recognise that the awareness of our self is simply awareness's knowledge of itself and ask, 'Do I, awareness, find any limit in myself?' We discover that the world appears within and is made of our self, infinite and eternal awareness.
This meditation clip has been taken from Rupert's Spring Retreat at Buckland Hall in 2019. To watch the full video, please follow the link below.
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[@robinwarga9]

Awfully heavy Rupert. I'm running as fast as I can. Tons of food for thought. Thanks again

[@mindfulkayaker7737]

It is a such a simple fact that we can’t believe that we have been calling ourselves “I” without realizing that we are talking about that which is aware of our thoughts our feelings our body and our world !

[@user-fu6ov4cy1g]

A teacher without narccism

[@stupidbeaver1]

Thank you Rupert, you have helped me so much with your teachings. I am finally finding peace and serenity after years of chaos. I am truly grateful. Thank you, Happy new year :)

[@Lealu39]

Thank youRupert for the possibility to thank you for the gift of your presence and for the always helpful question „AM I AWARE“““. A happy NEW YEAR TO YOU GERDA-Marie

[@madhuk6914]

Wishing you a very happy New year Rupert Spira. Greetings from Mother India

[@Starrchild65]

First. Happy new year

[@mementomori5374]

Happy new year bro thank you

[@marcelw1981]

Second. To who?

[@taniekingdom-medzchats]

❤❤❤❤ my gosh!! Thank you rupert!!! Ypy are absolutely everything to shine such light thats needed in our world 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@sumanaghosal5072]

What a great talk ...explaining the Gita right way🙏🙏🌻🌻🌻🌺🌺❤️❤️

[@Tiefsehtulpe]

Thank you so much, Rupert! This meditation contains it all. A jewel!

[@michaelseale7268]

Psalm 82:6, John 10:34. We are the Union of God

[@WillDanceAlone2U]

Mr. Rupert, your way with words guide like a gentle and sharp sword cutting off the cable to the projector: peace.

[@shoonyah]

What a wonderful start to the New Year with such a healing voice and re assuring words...I am the eternal, intimate awareness experiencing myself. Have a lovely, never ending rendezvous with yourself this year, evone ❤

[@likewings07]

Thank you, Rupert and for you a wonderful year ahead 💜

[@ArianaReflects]

❤️

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Bahut.hee.Adbhut.wondeful.Meditation.bahut.bahut.gretitude.Rupert.Spira.thanks.

[@aurelienyonrac]

To be self aware is to self reflect. Every thing self reflect, that is the state of being. Every thing what ever there form is conscious. Consciousness takes every form. There is only consciousness.

[@inokafernando5204]

Thank You Very Much Dearest Rupert...for your beautiful pure presence in our lives...!!! May You enjoy Good Health moment to moment.....so that one more Ego can enjoy freedom..!!! Endless Gratitude....from Sri Lanka...🌟🌷🌟

[@ommeditationmind1554]

Just what I needed to hear to clear the cloud covered sky! A great start to 2021.

[@AuntyHoney]

Thank you Rupert for this brilliant Clarity of Awareness 🙏💜🙏

[@db8799]

Thank you...Very good !

[@PsychedelicActualization]

Thank you Rupert for your teaching! Excited to continue the journey 2021 🙏🏽❤️

[@chandundl]

Thank you I love the teachings of Rupert sir !

[@serhatsuvaroglu7034]

Oh God!

[@sookieshin8674]

Even if English is not my mother tongue and only the 3rd language after French and Korean .... your explanation is the most understandable for me. Thank you so much.

[@justinegliskis3918]

You are a life changer. Thankyou💙

[@bettywu-lawrence4423]

Thank you my teacher! I have a lot to learn from you!

[@ArianaReflects]

❤️

[@SuketaPatel]

🙏this helped me to see so much clearer🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦❤️🌈🌏🦋

[@johnsheehan4557]

A master piece delivered by a Master...so grateful

[@yvonne1181]

Only the one who know oneself the I can share its self and be itself and be one with itself ... can not be separated only the I is always present always knowing always aware within the space it is within ...thank you !

[@WillDanceAlone2U]

Thank you for the revealing meditation.

[@willemienbaksteen9379]

Thank you Jason! This is so good to hear and realise!

[@strongself37]

Thank you. 💫💛✨💗

[@carolunel4721]

Thank you Rupert for your immense clarity of your words. They allow me to go deeper in the seeing and realizing I have always been this eternal and infinite being. Happy new year, Namaste.

[@shabnamtowhidian3142]

Beautiful as always

[@eddiechimex]

Happy new year❤️😄❤️

[@EstherCamilo]

Even when I wake up I have the sensation I was present before. But I still feel unsafe because the World seems so competitive and so many people are aware they exist. I just want to really know. Have the peace of God.

[@vlogdominka2323]

Amazing!

[@johannboeing-messing979]

Thank you. Happy New Year.

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for sharing THIS

[@charlesgodwin2191]

Only that which is can know anything about awareness of itself. Being awareness is a reification of being aware. Only Eternity can fully embrace Infinity. My knowledge that I am is the Absolute's knowledge that I am - no division. We can only experience the qualities/qualia of our perceptions of Being. Thus, qualia is the stuff experience is made of. Awareness is how we know them. That which is experiences knowing itself as that I am, in contrast to what I am and who I am. What I am is embodied as a human being. Who I am changes with time, place and circumstance. Only that I am - that which is - remains constant.

[@user-yv3dn5sh5m]

Looks like my ego is aware is itself , ad well as my intellect

[@rathodnarendra5255]

We are all shines through experience So we are not other then experience If it's experience is missing then who will be knows that who we are only experience can knows her self by his self experience

[@bernadetttoth9978]

Undescribable 🙏🙏🙏

[@vintagebuddha]

... L0Ve ...

[@luksay1767]

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@lucasedwardodes.esilva8416]

happy new year, folks! Feliz ano novo, que Bolsonaro e todos os fascistas do mundo vejam alguns vídeos do Rupert e se iluminem neste ano.

[@kathrynphillips3710]

💗🙏💗

[@MaMaRobynBird]

❤

[@astrigroth3268]

Hi there! Who are you channeling..?? I liked ur video, it just popped up, Thanx! :)))

[@Daniel_TransformationCoach]

The filmmaker he refers to, Pasolini? Does he make non duality related films

[@Sun.powder]

Happy New Year, question after listening to the explaination ,this is helpful, and yet still God is referred too as he.Why?

[@laurencem6448]

Who wants to wear a personality? And does awareness able to heal the body-mind?

[@ritamasuriya7812]

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@otterrivers3765]

. Even the most rigid materialist will of course automatically agree with the statement: *"You are that which is present and aware of experience."* Yet the necessary implications of this axiomatically accepted fact are not accepted nearly so readily. And somehow this glaring logical contradiction doesn't seem apparent or even relevant to most of us even after it is pointed out multiple times. It seems to me that this can only be the result of ignorance. I use the word "ignorance" in it's active form, i.e. "Ignoring" or "rejecting acknowledgement". Furthermore it would seem to follow logically that this is indicative of a deep-seated subconscious or even instinctual reason for this reflexive intentional aversion to an unwanted conclusion.

[@artofunk]

👍🏽

[@blinkmusic88]

I love all of Ruperts content, but there's something strange going on. I've listened to this meditation, wide awake, no distraction, for the full length of the video .. I've done this at least 4 times, so about 2 hours worth of this video. And for the life of me, I can't remember a single word he says..not even the hello at the beginning. It's like I've never seen this video. I just cannot retain anything..why?

[@anshumangupta89]

I'm new to this philosophy, hence please ignore if my question is too naive. Do all beings share the same waking state? Since waking state is a projection, is it possible that everyone has their own waking states and we do not exist in each other's.

[@99sanchez24]

No

[@gmw3083]

What to say then, of the royal "We"? Hmmm......

[@clckwrk0rng391]

We, is a bundle of multiple selves outside of the inside of the one I, where there is no outside or inside.

[@gmw3083]

@@clckwrk0rng391 Good answer, thanks, but a bit off target in this instance. Maybe one has to be of a certain age, in a commonwealth country or have watched a good amount of Monty Python or Benny Hill. "We are not amused". As QE2 might say. Or maybe the omni-speak was all invented by Shakespeare as a writing style. Introduction to The Royal We Act 1 Scene 1 KING LEAR Meantime WE shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that WE have divided In three OUR kingdom: and 'tis OUR fast intent To shake all cares and business from OUR age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while WE Unburthen'd crawl toward death. OUR son of Cornwall, And you, OUR no less loving son of Albany, WE have this hour a constant will to publish OUR daughters' several dowers, that future strife, ‐--------- Great rivals in OUR youngest daughter's love, Long in OUR court have made their amorous sojourn, ---------- Since now WE will divest US both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state,-- Which of you shall WE say doth love US most? That WE OUR largest bounty may extend --------- I had to investigate a bit here. Like much of what's out there. When you look behind the curtain. The royal we, may never have been part of what we call the real whirled.

[@iamthatwhoislivingloveligh8393]

Excuse me, Sorry but that was rude. Tree's are 100% Aware of them selves and their environment. Thank You very much 😉 🙏🏻 Namaste and Namaha 🙏🏻 Blessings Grace Love&Light

[@iamthatwhoislivingloveligh8393]

🎄🌲 Now a table made of wood on the other hand I can agree a table is definitely not aware but a tree...🇱🇧🇳🇫🇨🇦🍁🍂 A living Tree, one the oldest Life forms on our planet?! 🌳🌿🍃That's where we will agree to disagree 🏝️🌴

[@IsaiahMolina37]

Awareness is not an object or subject. So it is itself ever present. It can only be aware of itself as nothing exist outside of itself. So the tree from a perspective of human is aware of itself. But not as a tree as that is concept. It knows itself by being itself. Rupert does a great job on pointing us back to whats really real. That which is real never ceases to be. That which is unreal never comes into existence.

[@iamthatwhoislivingloveligh8393]

I am Aware 😅thanks for your official stamp of approval though. 🤙🏻 Chillax

[@IsaiahMolina37]

@@iamthatwhoislivingloveligh8393 not really for you.. But for the people who would believe your statement.. Namaste my friend

[@MarcosBetancort]

Concisousness is beyond or greater than I, therefore Consciousness is not I and I am not consciousness. The calling itself I is the limiting of itself as a thought therefore whenever I think of myself I am a limitation of consciousness and not unlimited. I can't never say or think I am that awareness. Limitation is not thought itself, thought is the expression of what is beyond accordingly. If I am in essence infinite awareness then I would have expected to be a consonant expression, but I find that I am not that expression. There must be a thought or expression that really manifests perfectly infinite awareness within that framework. So by a simple comparison we can see that someone other than us Is the perfect manifestation of awareness. He has been called the Logos and has ascended and filled through our limitations to Infinite awareness.

[@loveeveryone8057]

0:30 Rupert ....you state that the tree is not aware of itself....But how do you know that? Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Backster Jr. (February 27, 1924 - June 24, 2013) was an interrogation specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), best known for his experiments with plants using a polygraph instrument in the 1960s which led to his claim of "primary perception" where he claimed that plants "feel pain" and have extrasensory perception (ESP), which was widely reported in the media but was rejected by the scientific community.. I certainly reviewed experiments where plants did have memory and were aware of itself. This tends to suggest that 1. Plants do have consciousness/ awareness , have memory, and are self aware. The same three attributes of the human being. 1. We are conscious, we have limited awareness and have limited awareness. So in fairness the tree could be very aware that it is a tree and views its reality from that perspective. Perhaps the tree can call itself "I", who are we to judge.

[@hunorka11]

If the tree is still aware of itself, it is just God-consciousness of itself! 🤣

[@mementomori5374]

Why do some spirit teachers say that you dont exist and some say you do exist i dont get it

[@TheJooberjones]

Because both statements are true depending on the perspective. Paradox and contradiction are no barrier for infinity :)

[@djedeye2665]

You exist as the creator of the you that you know and identify as..the you that you know, exists within the consciousness of the creator that you are and can also identify as.

[@mementomori5374]

@@djedeye2665 thank you guys for your response.. i know the identity ive created but the creator i dont get it is the creator that space what is surrounding my body mind ? That space is everywhere but isnt it all in my head ? Because i see everything as a reflection of my mind i dont know i would love to know or realise

[@Satsang2012]

Meditation has never done anything. I have found that out after 20 years of meditation. I also see this with many who have meditated for 50 years and more. No one has ever arrived through meditation. That meditation leads to enlightenment is a myth. No one has achieved enlightenment through meditation. When enlightenment happens, it happens for no reason. And not because one has meditated for decades. It also has nothing to do with consciousness and awareness, as many believe. There is also no higher self to realize. If the I dies for no reason, there is no more experience and no one who knows what is happening. It is rare because it rarely happens. All the teachings about awareness and consciousness are useless. "There is no mirror to polish because there is no mirror."

[@mrjsneff]

Precisely.

[@Sun.powder]

God's knowledge of itself please not himself.

[@3brainer]

Where is awareness when we sleep?

[@wolflarsen3447]

Awareness is always the same, it never changes. In deep sleep there is nothing there to be aware OF. In the waking state there is world of perceptions, we are aware if these perceptions. In the dream state there is the dream world and we are aware of those perceptions. Both the waking and dream states are mind states. In deep sleep there is no perception, so there is no "content" to be aware of, so no experience is remembered or registered. So to speak.

[@sabaarunanthy6296]

In waking and dream state you are aware of objects, in deep sleep you aware of absence of objects

[@kolarz2128]

Here?

[@ndchiwa2741]

Please ,translate to arabe language

[@gilbertecormier9491]

Cc’d