Guided Meditation: The Door between Prison and the World

In this guided meditation, we explore the primordial word ‘I’, or the knowledge ‘I am’ in each of us, and how it relates to infinite consciousness and the finite mind.

Rupert says: ‘The knowledge “I am” is the first form of God and the ultimate symbol of God’s presence. It is the first thing that awareness knows of itself. In fact, it is all that awareness knows of itself. It is the intersection between infinite consciousness and the finite mind – like a door that separates a prison from the outside world. If you go from the outside world into the prison, you lose your freedom; and if you go from the prison to the outside world, you regain your freedom.

‘And as infinite awareness passes through the doorway, it seems to become a finite mind located in a body and in time and space. But in doing so, it leaves a trace of itself in the finite mind as the pure knowledge “I am”. Thus the knowledge “I am” that each of us as a person seems to have within is, in fact, a hint of the Beloved in us.’

*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Mandali, 20–27 April 2024. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

Timestamps:

0:00 Guided Meditation on ‘I Am’
4:50 The Primordial Word
10:22 Awareness’s Primary Knowledge
13:29 The Intersection Between Mind and Awareness
18:10 The Knowledge ‘I Am’
26:44 Awareness’s Experience of Itself
35:43 When We Come Closest to God
39:12 What Is Nothing?

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[alfreddifeo]

Beautifully expressed in words of sensations. This feels like the analogy of ice melting in a glass of water, depending on the temperature we are in. The melting in what we are already will happen.🙏

[hemamalinirs]

Beautiful ❤🙏, immense gratitude and love for sharing this

[pilargarcia]

Maravilloso!!! Muchísimas gracias!!!🙏🤍💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🤎🩶

[Thetruth]

Acknowledging, being aware, knowing, understanding etc are all possible and easier than staying in peace everyday life with each family member and each co worker for example. We all need something like sensational market changer inside us.

[patreeseeahhh]

No where AND now here
I AM awareness BEING
Life’s animation 👀

[mulen-xu]

There is a very prominent idea in persian sacred book Zend avesta about the nature of time and zervan (zervan is a condition of awarness out of the time or in eternity), - the sages could litle by litle make the flow of time slow and stop it. If they are entering in zervan they become invisible for everyone who live in time. Indeed if you are calm, stillness, no stress, no worries, no disturbance the time begin to flow slow. We really can slow or even overcome the boundary of the time by means of meditation.

[AKA_SimplyHuman]

Listen to the music that moves you and you will find your soul!

[samuelmacdowell]

Very dual talk between God and us. If God is infinite Love why should we tremble and fear even saying His name

[angelaleitner]

I'm....this
I'm ...that. Duality
I' m ...FULL STOP! Non Duality!

[bille]

Beingness, consciousness, love, awareness, peace, oneness, truth, God, reality, truth* are all different words for one and the same "thing". They're not just different aspects of one and the same "thing". But actually they all denominate one and the same "thing".

*I'm sure I haven't included every term.
Oh yeah, "presence" ❤

[marynatani]

Blake: when the doors of perception are cleansed, we will see everything as it really is : Infinite. Nisargadatta said that the I Am is the polishing cloth.

[yerberohamsa]

Did not, "I" from formless create form and made it blind to heavens light? Where then that hidden gate to paradise if not in thy lips that form may fashion like sculpture's hands make visible one more plank on bridge upon abyss that whispers freedom.

[drahnafaljajah]

I couldn’t understand what it means “God Knows Nothing” can someone help ? If God knows nothing How God said to Abraham “tell them I AM”

[hannahlily]

What does he mean

The church bells are a synchronistic event in the outside world that correspond with the inner experience I am etc.. what does he mean about the church bells?

[AKA_SimplyHuman]

All imagination. Reality is the process we experience. Everything we try to say about it is, well simply overactive imagination. Philosophy is an intellectual word for fantasy. Life force ignites your being, then spends the rest of your life seeking to kill you.

[Vida.]

کاش یه بنده خدایی پیدا میشد این مراقبه رو فارسی ترجمه میکرد

[jordicostadomenech]

Hola ¡no hi estic d'acord 35:45 la conciencia no sap res no té coneixent d'ella mateixa sí i no a la vegada, no per que no neix ni mor ni canvia. Sí, al mateix temps que està arreu en totes les circumstàncies determinades a on es presenta, en aquesta Vida es coneix sap de si mateixa en les circumstàncies i determinacions d'aquesta presència aquí així aquesta Vida.
Res sempre és alguna cosa. Tot el que apareix aquí està en canvi constant cap al lloc d'origen, marxa la diversitat que soc queda aquesta Vida que també soc. Jo soc això tal com soc.

[hr]

This poor guy is a fraud btw. So much fraud that he doesn't know he is one.

[zendog]

Too many words used Rupert, switched off after 5 mins of rambling.