Just beautiful 🥰 a reminder of where happiness and peace truly resides, untouched by experiences, thoughts, beliefs and feelings 💓simply to be, to express and share in the moment of now 🥰
I have been chewing on Whitby’s question of what accounts for the difference in experience of the past vs future. This came to me today and resonates.
The difference is in how blank the screen is for projection. The past has been partially defined for us; the future has not. The future is a different magnitude of blank, in order for us to project both what we seek and what we resist, desire or aversion/fear.
I was thinking...the questioner is probably referring to that the dopaminerelease is bigger when anticipating than it is when remembering, that’s why she finds the so called “different times” feeling different. She talked about the “caracter happiness” which often depends on dopamine. Rupert talked about the happiness of the Self, which is constantly happy and is not due to dopaminerelease.
Interesting perspective on time and trauma. I find myself contemplating “what is trauma?”. And when I abide in my Self I only find. “I don’t even understand the question”. In other words, trauma is a non issue when abiding in myself. I don’t understand the question. But when I change perspective to my character and ask the same question I find a lot of “talk”, a lot of “answers” and a lot of ways to dig this question from different angels. One angle is “it depends on how you define ‘real’”.
So I go back to my Self again, and resting there, I ask the question again “what is real?” and I find the same answer again “I cannot understand the question”. Again, my Self finds the question of “real” just a not relevant discussion, no real question, its like asking a mumbo jumbo question, so it has no real answer, due to the question having its conceptual nature.
It is really interesting this “abiding in the Self” anyway. I mean, what is abiding? When I ask my Self this question- it again answers “I don’t understand the question”. It’s like ...laughing at the question, in a kind way. Like its mumbo jumbo again. A lunatic question. Why? Because we cannot not abide in the Self...
So much of our experiences becomes “unrelevant”, for a better word, when feeling, thinking, asking from the Self. In fact, one finds there really is no questions left. It just feels like a mysterious peaceful and quiet smile inside, something that asks no questions, and need no answers.
My awakenings. Began at the age of 10. I kept them to myself. In 1968 the being aware. More frequent. I was reading about mystics. It is only in 2020. I discovered Rupert Spira. Such a delight. A newer awareness. This tied to the ONENESS of all. Became spot on. As the saying goes. I would like to add. The innate reality. As one with the divine. Contentment could easily take place. Of the word happiness.
I am often surprised how many ‘a ha’ moments can happen when listening to these dialogues. And some I have watched several times before, soaking in and washing over, to find saturation. Space and time, the paradox of being…the mind struggles.
Just beautiful 🥰 a reminder of where happiness and peace truly resides, untouched by experiences, thoughts, beliefs and feelings 💓simply to be, to express and share in the moment of now 🥰
I have been chewing on Whitby’s question of what accounts for the difference in experience of the past vs future. This came to me today and resonates.
The difference is in how blank the screen is for projection. The past has been partially defined for us; the future has not. The future is a different magnitude of blank, in order for us to project both what we seek and what we resist, desire or aversion/fear.
Stupendous teaching and video. I love it so so much.
Thank you!!
I was thinking...the questioner is probably referring to that the dopaminerelease is bigger when anticipating than it is when remembering, that’s why she finds the so called “different times” feeling different. She talked about the “caracter happiness” which often depends on dopamine. Rupert talked about the happiness of the Self, which is constantly happy and is not due to dopaminerelease.
Interesting perspective on time and trauma. I find myself contemplating “what is trauma?”. And when I abide in my Self I only find. “I don’t even understand the question”. In other words, trauma is a non issue when abiding in myself. I don’t understand the question. But when I change perspective to my character and ask the same question I find a lot of “talk”, a lot of “answers” and a lot of ways to dig this question from different angels. One angle is “it depends on how you define ‘real’”.
So I go back to my Self again, and resting there, I ask the question again “what is real?” and I find the same answer again “I cannot understand the question”. Again, my Self finds the question of “real” just a not relevant discussion, no real question, its like asking a mumbo jumbo question, so it has no real answer, due to the question having its conceptual nature.
It is really interesting this “abiding in the Self” anyway. I mean, what is abiding? When I ask my Self this question- it again answers “I don’t understand the question”. It’s like ...laughing at the question, in a kind way. Like its mumbo jumbo again. A lunatic question. Why? Because we cannot not abide in the Self...
So much of our experiences becomes “unrelevant”, for a better word, when feeling, thinking, asking from the Self. In fact, one finds there really is no questions left. It just feels like a mysterious peaceful and quiet smile inside, something that asks no questions, and need no answers.
My awakenings. Began at the age of 10. I kept them to myself. In 1968 the being aware. More frequent. I was reading about mystics. It is only in 2020. I discovered Rupert Spira. Such a delight. A newer awareness. This tied to the ONENESS of all. Became spot on. As the saying goes. I would like to add. The innate reality. As one with the divine. Contentment could easily take place. Of the word happiness.
I am often surprised how many ‘a ha’ moments can happen when listening to these dialogues. And some I have watched several times before, soaking in and washing over, to find saturation. Space and time, the paradox of being…the mind struggles.