What is Enlightenment? How Can it Happen For Me?

[@Boblw56]

Thanks for this. I’ve been a seeker for 50 years expecting some transcendental, blissful experience. Believe me, whatever fantasy people have, it’s nothing like that. Yet, still amazing in a completely ordinary way.

[@casper1240]

I know i did TM for years fell for the yogic flying bit .. still cant go back

[@rdmpsy]

That's great but you should probably work on that foot fantasy next.

[@bassiebassie3417]

Yea honestly i wish i could take it back

[@joykruse7042]

@@rdmpsy ;/ where are you Leanne you want me to bring the girls 👧 to go

[@Anlonn]

just because you didn't experience it, doesn't mean others didn't. "Believe me, whatever fantasy people have, it’s nothing like that", speak for yourself. your truth is only what you experience. everything else is a belief, a story.

[@philbraddick2753]

Shame your wisdom doesn't go viral. Enlightenment is simply Heart Attention. Instead of having attention on whatever it is on at the moment attention is diverted upon the Heart that which is always in the center that which is always present the feeling center without difference without qualification.

[@johnsiegfried]

Yes. Wonderful! Enlightenment is not special. Just return to who you really are. Thanks Rupert!

[@maureeno9382]

bliss

[@1bertoncelj]

> Enlightenment is not special. hmmmm no not really it is super special in the way it feels and the way it is

[@infinitenothingness]

Rupert's clarity of explanation provides incredible depth with simplicity. So simple. You are the awareness observing the emotions, thoughts, and experiences. 🙏 Bless you Rupert 🧘‍♀️

[@wilma8326]

“Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all." ~ ecim lesson 188 🌟

[@spacewalktraveller1]

I love ACIM

[@vilmasommer-muller6778]

You are so right!!!!💟

[@hansburch3700]

Anfangs ist es eine Vermutung, die man nutzen muss, das führt zu einem langen Weg, der ins Ungewisse führt.

[@balvenie55]

Thank you Rupert for bringing the teachings of Yeshua into the 21st century . The Good News has finally been revealed. 'Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, You see me you see the Father' ' Be in the World but not of it ' so simple ...yet, so powerful , delivered perfectly as usual by your kind self.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

A Course In Miracles, written by Jesus through a scribe, was published in 1975. Just a small point in the case such has been wholly overlooked by one who seeks a more advanced way of knowing the Christ in you and all as one. So small then the gap that the Father collapses any distance, and now what was already one is forever one once again. See the image of the flower of life, noting the two outermost a circles, the Father and the Son.

[@davidhollyfield5148]

My first teacher showed me this. I glibly assumed that was it. But it's taken a lot longer to integrate this beyond being just 'information'.

[@FabioPedrazzoliGrazioli]

Thank you Rupert, meeting you and following your teachings has changed my life. This video is another masterpiece of love and beauty : )

[@kimelzen6951]

Dearest Rupert - thank you so much for Being you. For your truth, your gentleness and the vast love I see shining out of your eyes. SO grateful for you.

[@perothing]

What can be written in 10000 books, can be said in 17 minutes. A message as fresh and lucid as morning dew that got touched by the first sunbeams.

[@pinkifloyd7867]

Once you know another phrase is no longer needed, until. you know 1000 books are never enough. ML

[@anandakumarsanthinathan4740]

Thank you for your Presence, Rupert. It was a real pleasure walking with you.

[@RT-fr9tn]

Thank you Rupert for making "recognition" accessible and bringing it to the forefront with your simple yet profound teachings and discussions. I like the way you are inviting us to unravel the coverings of feelings, sensations and perceptions. Thank you,, immense gratitude 🙏 Rima.

[@paulkim1345]

One of the best things he's posted. Would love more of these practical monologues that are great guides for those of us who are struggling.

[@nrazz]

Thanks for taking us on this peaceful and joyful walk with you!

[@baharam98]

Dear Rupert, I found your talks a few days ago; You are the flame that ignited what had been getting ready to be ignited at the right time. The words... "Thank You," seem to be the closest to what, no other words can express❤...

[@sarvashura]

Merci infiniment pour ce partage qui ponctue la journée avec grâce et Amour. Bénédictions.

[@LiliaKardenas]

What a beautifully condensed presentation of the direct path. Looking forward to our next webinar this Sunday. Lilia from Ukraine.

[@marce.goodnews]

(...) Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. (1 Corinthians 15:3-5)

[@PolAndDazShow]

I hope your OK Lilia , let me know if I can do anything to help you ❤

[@AmaraEagle]

So sad to hear what’s happening in Ukraine Lilia. My heart is with you. I hope you are okay xxx

[@maryberry6067]

Rubert you are so straight forward. Thank you.

[@MichaelLittle47]

One of the finest discussions regarding enlightenment that I've had the good fortune to hear. Finally, I description that aligns with personal experience. Thank you sir. 🙏✨

[@rebeccae5691]

I am so grateful to you, Rupert. You give so much, with such exquisite clarity and profound love. G-d bless you and yours.

[@lilidutrey5491]

Well said! Thank you, Rupert ! Beginning with meditations every day is the best way to take off these so thick layers of our thinking, emotion, perception led by the ego(our illusive self) and finally see our true being full of love, of great compassion which has never left us.

[@lirivicerabin3682]

🙏❤

[@Light-pl9ti]

Enlightenment is the normal circulation of a liquid called CSF in the spine ! For most of the people, the normal circulation of this liquid is blocked or limited! Somehow it’s related to the balance in the spine!

[@paweljanowicz]

Although we don't know each other directly, you are one of my closest friends. God bless you!

[@marce.goodnews]

(...) Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. (1 Corinthians 15:3-5)

[@andimatt7232]

Man, I love this oldschool video format, it is like going on a walk with you :)

[@renesonse5794]

It's old school? What is the new school version??

[@cherylmcintyre5780]

Wilma, thank you for your comment referring to ACIM Lesson 188, as I am student of ACIM and Rupert. We do not become enlightened, we return to what we are love and light!

[@iamruslan-zf7up4zz3o]

It's so wonderful to walk along the banks of the Thames with Rupert, going over the concepts of the Direct Path. Thanks Rupert! Huge gratitude to the Universe in the face of everyone for this opportunity.

[@randybackgammon890]

Mind whatever issues and criticisms I may have with any discourse I just want to say that Rupurt seems a lovely bloke.I will always bow to gentelness

[@finskihans]

thank you for beeing a great teacher to me

[@alexmcnab57]

Absolutely love this spiritual being, guidence is lovely.....beyond, beyond 🙏🙏

[@marmarc464]

Thank you Rupert, I enjoyed listening to you. For the past 6 years i have been in 12 step recovery and practiced meditation daily. I have felt totally indifferent for the past 6 months, lost interest in everything and everyone. I have missed practices and your video gave me a nudge to give it a go, so thanks

[@almall4042]

The dog occupied my attention so exclusively that I overlooked the teaching and had to rewind. :D

[@bronsonmcnulty1110]

fascinated by content or sleep

[@Klazi]

lol

[@LiliaKardenas]

Thank you for taking us on a stroll with you, Rupert. So nice modern technology makes possible an experience like that.

[@pursuitofspirit]

Loving these new vlog style videos Rupert & Team, feels much more personal and intimate. Thank you for sharing!

[@nitsamarcandonatou9147]

Thank you Rupert! I love your teachings and also the way you did it in nature. Something about that feels so intimate. Could you please consider doing one during each of the seasons??!

[@nevrikos]

Thank you for sharing your interpretation of what should be universal knowledge. Knowledge that should be free to all, without the need to attend expensive seminars… 🙏🏻

[@FirstPersonHood]

Off with your head!

[@nevrikos]

@@FirstPersonHood 😂

[@bd5697]

That’s part of the trick of the mind. It transcends knowledge. The mind proceeds “this”. “This” can’t be described. It’s like trying to put a post it note on thin air. Orient yourself to the thought itself not it’s meaning or knowledge that it holds.

[@mfive7274]

@@bd5697 like using memory/ thoughts as tools ?

[@bd5697]

@@mfive7274 are you implying that’s what I’m doing? Open to any criticism ☺

[@victoriahangula382]

I am delighted by your simple approach of explaining this reality of human existence. This is a unique explanation I come across. Thank you for the wisdom to speak about inlightment to western orientation odiance. Keep up the lamp that you lit.

[@sengchhuon2133]

Be in the moment by moment....it's already there....home sweet home! Recognize it in ourselves and others.......peace and harmony prevail. Thank you for sharing peace!!!:)))

[@cutzymccall7675]

I call it a home-coming. Rupert Spira: What a beautiful soul you are.

[@PhilippSchiffer]

The two trees in the background are just beautiful.

[@angeloiodice9304]

Thank you, Rupert. Never met you, but you are a true, and very dear friend. You do everything possible to share your awakening in a way that moves us all closer. I studied this stuff all over the world, including with naked sadhus, high in the Himalayas. All that was truly great, also. But, your discourses made it all so logical, reachable, simple, and possible. I am forever grateful to you for making sure that we struggling with foreign concepts, finally are given an honest, fair chance to clear our own pathway, and realize the Everpresent.

[@2rcalkins]

Such a beautiful way of telling us what we are each seeking. Thank you

[@alainfranken7081]

So true. Its so simple. But first i wasnt enlightened. And then I was and am. Now i am enlightened for a couple years and i cant understand why i didnt notice it earlier. Its so obvious, so simple, but yet so hard to see. But when you see, you know. And when you know that you are the knowing with which you know everything, you always know. But you need to remind yourself about it every day. Otherwise experience takes over very quickly. Experience is great. But just don't forget that you are also conciousness.

[@FirstPersonHood]

Forgetting is a main feature of the play.

[@OffGridMind]

Daily silent meditation will help you remember, cumulatively.

[@OffGridMind]

@@FirstPersonHood You're funny :)

[@Light-pl9ti]

Enlightenment is the normal circulation of a liquid called CSF in the spine ! For most of the people, the normal circulation of this liquid is blocked or limited! Somehow it’s related to the balance in the spine!

[@bille77]

So being and being aware is ultimately exactly the same?

[@mouthearnose]

Thank you Rupert 🙏

[@tchaffan9998]

The clearest video you ever made

[@joesoap5336]

I had a satori just over a year ago. I wasn't looking for it because I had never heard of it. I'd been meditating every day for over 2 years and then one day while making a cup of tea an awareness came over me. I didn't know what it was. It was as if the universe revealed itself to me and I had known it all along but just forgot. It was so weird and yet so obvious. I sought out help from everyone from a Christian priest to a therapist to a hypnotherapist but it was a zen monk who suggested I'd had a satori. It remains to this day and I can tell you that it is just like he says. Life goes on. Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment chop wood and carry water.

[@shahin6671]

Thank you so much for sharing. It inspires me and at the same time I am sobered up in my ambitions.

[@highlanderes]

The first time, I noticed a remarkable lightness being without heavy past and future for a whole day. Just being present with the present. Later for a whole week. A heavy burden was lifted and that felt marvellous.

[@steveevans946]

Very helpful. I do feel our material experience in this dimension serves a purpose, perhaps not for us, as individuals (which, of course, we are not, at base level) but for universal consciousness - to help it evolve divine wisdom. I have experienced the Self, when briefly dying. There was no sense of self, only a wonderful awareness of everything being ok and somehow making sense - even suffering. Coming back from that felt like reassembling into the tiny expression of universal awareness which for a limited time makes me. We should be aware that we are not what we see in the mirror, but nevertheless, embrace our experiences here in as light and playful a manner as possible. It is love, selfless love, which is such an attraction for all beings. None really understands it, but it is the most divine aspect of being.

[@maureeno9382]

How beautiful!

[@patriciamcloughlin6556]

Just beautiful- always felt enlightenment wasn’t something other who we are, so pleased to have heard it explained in such a simple manner 🙏

[@jocelynbolduc2769]

The Truth is short and sweet.Eternally now.love

[@АндрейБобков-ж9я]

Огромное спасибо Руперт! С любовью из России! ❤️

[@danielreed823]

What a lovely looking stretch of river and landscape

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

The One Pure Consciousness, expressing itself divinely through the temporary form of R.Spira. Gorgeous

[@drsdm23]

Thank you Rupert Maharaj

[@lindagumbleton6569]

Thank you for sharing such a profound and clear explanation demystifying enlightenment in a way that makes it comprehensible and achievable for all. And for sharing your Riverside walk. In gratitude 🙏

[@als07369]

There is amazing resonance listening to you 🙏

[@Queenie-the-genie]

Lovely to see and hear this Rupert. Your talks are a blessing to me - I listen almost every day or evening. 💛

[@Loneranger670]

Thank you. I have been following you for a few months now and you have literally transformed, if not saved, my life.

[@razoo9]

You are the only one who explained to me clearly what is enlightenment. Endless gratitude 💕💕💕

[@AnthoDub]

This message of truth spoken with a soothing tone of voice is a truly appeasing balm which incites the unit of consciousness that animates this present finger-typing body to ground itself into true self. The background being dynamic with random appearances (hello dog!) makes the video flow much better and illustrates (in)voluntarily well the idea that life is a flowing river.

[@magdalena7027]

Thank you very much from the Czech Republic and I am very sorry that I will not come 🥲❤Thanks Rupert for your videos.

[@Farooqplvi]

Thank you Rupert.

[@2765rosario]

Hi, can not thank you enough for your teachings , you've helped me alot. Whatever it is , I will find " It " because your way of saying touched me . 🙏 Im portuguese living in Portugal and it is changing my life and all people around me , because only my atitude to life . ❣

[@vickyp1732]

Thank you Rupert x

[@ingridgrattidge5637]

I watched a movie in my 20s. I’m now 61. This movie has forever stayed with me. “The incredible lightness of being”.

[@ddaavvee68]

comforting to hear that awareness ebbs and flows, and grows stronger over time

[@anjavanherwaarden9711]

We can see Rubert is clear. We can say conciesness is the clearness. ♡♡♡

[@jacquesboutelet8643]

I love you Rupert !

[@Cheese-is-its-own-food-group]

I had my realization a little over a month ago and things are changing. This isn’t what I was expecting but there was a knowledge I somehow remembered. I was sitting quietly when I realized and it goes so very deep.

[@MedMiguel]

Light to you, dear Rupert, a big and beautiful consciousness. My first non-I experience was with his guidance. But i must confess, being touched by the Light of Being does not feel ordinary in anyway the first times: there is a Deep and yet dense Silence that engulfs and dissolves the sensation of I, and when it is allowed in the body the whole Existence seems to explode - the body becomes full of electric light and light as a feather, the mind becomes blissful beyond any words, the whole sensorial perception becomes superficial, like if its heard and seen very far away, and there is direct perception of Flows of Light under everything and everywhere. The body becomes drained of energy very fast, and i feel that is what any kind of sadhana is for - for elevating the ability of the body and mind of enduring such High Vibrations. May the Light and Love Be,

[@math1351]

Thanks Rupert! ✌️

[@truthseeker683]

Thank you Rubert for this wonderful talk....lots of Love and happiness ❤️... Gratitude 🙏

[@akinkayim2971]

Rupert thank you for the knowledge .you bring me closer to love and mercy .if i now myself i can now the through self i am ❤ 20 years I' m seeking for answers you have sad it all be Happy and be content with the treasor in or heart .Thank you my frend

[@AlexHop1]

Thank you! I'm most of the way through your book, "The Nature of Consciousness." It's wonderful and so explanatory. Thank you!

[@Eliezer-ec1bx]

Inlightenment, then, is to be illuminated from within.

[@mahvash2811]

Thanks mr Rupert to mention the nature of our being which is under laying of pervade all experience

[@teddybear9029]

What a beautiful tranquil backdrop!

[@MandySky]

I am part of a lot of spiritual groups on Facebook and often see this question a lot as well, and surely do not give such a beautiful explanation such as yourself. Any time I see this question pop up in the groups, I am always going to refer them to your video. Simply amazing 🥰 you bless the world with your presence 🙏

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Of course they don't, and can't. They are not established as the Self, yet

[@msnzbody3712]

Love Rupert . Gosh he has gotten so old I hope we dont lose him.😫

[@louisevs9152]

I think, that the only possibility to give words to this experience or way of being, in the way you do, is when you've been (experiencing)- and are (experiencing) this, yourself. Thank you so much.

[@Francesca-nq4if]

Sei davvero dolce! Grazie di cuore Rupert 🙏🏼💗

[@yoshiyoshi518]

Viewing from the perspective of conscious awareness is not Enlightenment. This is simply the logical conclusion of mindfulness.

[@irissands6063]

The "Best" to you too, Rupert. Thank

[@Mrprashantk]

Thank you Rupert. I understood your teachings and recognise myself. I am just aware of and not attached with the content that appears, seems to exists and vanishes. Next step : Effort is required to completely digest this understanding and remain as pure being..oam..

[@OffGridMind]

I have not heard Rupert speak of that effort, but perhaps he does.

[@vivienpurmort]

Rupert, I noticed that you must have been walking at an extraordinary pace by the river. The scenery was moving by as if one was driving by it.

[@Light-pl9ti]

Enlightenment is the normal circulation of a liquid called CSF in the spine ! For most of the people, the normal circulation of this liquid is blocked or limited! Somehow it’s related to the balance in the spine!

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

No effort is needed, when you/one is at that "stage" of establishing. All Love, Om

[@fatimafonseka4735]

Thank You. I understand very well now, what is awakening. I keep watching Your videos everyday.

[@marktourtellotte1336]

Much love for you, my brother!

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

Great explanation of meditating. I thought it was going to be boring at the beginning but then got better and better as it went on. Thank you.,

[@CorneliaMihalyEurope]

I love you so much Rupert Spira 🤗❤️

[@ahjones12]

Thank you Rupert for your gentle yet powerful wisdom

[@Benjani19762]

I think you are the most amazing person Rupert... what a beautiful way of explaining things. So good.

[@kahlschlag17]

Go within. Through all books out. What is is. What is not is not. Your experience is the only thing that counts.

[@stevensun1]

"Remember yourself, always and everywhere" Gurdjieff

[@emmaborutta9622]

My God Rupert! What a great idea! Referring to your video "Collapsing the distance between God..." You actually invite God for your retreat to show him the way to enlightenment. Ain’t that just divine?

[@bouquetchocolatesandconfec77]

There are no words to explain - to be released is a gift in its self - to know really know is both indescribable and present intertwined bathed in the rendering of the now

[@catiarodrigues8492]

Walking and learning with Rupert. Delicious! 🙏🧡🙏🇵🇹

[@dianespencer8057]

Thank you, dear Rupert, for taking us along such a beautiful path with you! :)

[@j.dexter7250]

Thank you, Rupert! You are wonderful-hugs!

[@simontemplarGB]

To walk is by a thought to go;. To move in spirit to and fro;. To mind the good we see;. To taste the sweet;. Observing all the things we meet. Thomas Traherne.

[@awakenotwoke7949]

The enlightenment mind simply grows up and learns to endure uncertainty, and actually embraces confusion, unpredictability and the paradox of our dual and split nature.It recaptures the awe and mystery of existence.

[@marcoskoyama5915]

Thank you for the video. Indeed by reading and talking one often miss the essence that is "know thyself" and, having started the search, get lost amidst the many ways prescribed to do the walk. We go east, to India, Nepal, China, etc., because in the West we have lost our spirituality by drowning it in a sea of materialism. Regards from Brazil.

[@korbel.design]

Om Namah Shivaya!

[@konstantindrukteinis5518]

Thank you! Simple and important message with love!

[@visakumar]

Beautiful narration. Seeking Realization was compared by Ramana in simplest way like 'thief turning policeman to catch the thief, ie. himself'