What is Enlightenment? How Can it Happen For Me?

What is enlightenment? Enlightenment or awakening is not an exotic experience, it is simply the recognition of the nature of our being, which underlies and pervades all experience irrespective of its content. In other words, it is always and has always been here, as you.

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In order to see our true nature and become established in its innate peace and joy, we go deeply into ourself, discarding or letting go of anything that is not essential to us – thoughts, images, feelings, perceptions, relationships an so on – tracing our way back to our essential reducible self or being, over and over again.

Rupert sometimes refers to this approach as the Way of Recognition - to know again something that we have always known but we have overlooked or ignored or forgotten.

As we become established in our true nature of being, or awareness, fewer and fewer experiences in life have the power to take us away from our self. In time, we begin to feel that our being is not really 'our' being. In other words, it does not really belong to us as a person.

Our being, divested of the qualities that it acquires from the content of our experience, is revealed simply as being. Utterly intimate but impersonal and unlimited, extending way beyond the borders of our self as a person.

That being is not only the essence of our self, but is the essence of everything. It is that from which we derive our sense of our self. It is also that being from which everyone and everything derives its apparent individuality or its apparent existence.

In other words we begin to feel and intuit that what we essentially are on the inside is the same reality, the same being that all people all animals and all things essentially are. And this recognition is that to which we refer in all people and animals as love. And in relation to objects and nature as beauty.

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The guided meditations and discussions that take place at the event will unveil our essential nature from the content of experience, thereby changing the way we feel the body and perceive the world. This helps us to not only recognise the nature of our being but increasingly feel that we share our being with everyone and everything.

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[Boblw]

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.

[wilma]

“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 🌟

[johnsiegfried]

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

[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.

[anandakumarsanthinathan]

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

[LiliaKardenas]

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

[paweljanowicz]

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

[balvenie]

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.

[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 🧘‍♀️

[sarvashura]

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

[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… 🙏🏻

[FabioPedrazzoliGrazioli]

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

[pursuitofspirit]

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

[LiliaKardenas]

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

[nrazz]

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

[baharam]

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❤...

[RT-frtn]

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.

[kimelzen]

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.

[alainfranken]

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.

[andimatt]

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