Why Don’t You Ever Talk about Your Awakening Experience?

A woman says she had an awakening experience but the intense bliss she felt disappeared soon afterwards. How can the state of mind experienced after a glimpse of your true nature simply fade away?

Rupert says that was just a heightened state of mind. It was not the recognition of your true nature. Your true nature is not a state that comes and goes. It's true that sometimes this recognition will have a very profound impact on the mind and the body but that would be the by-product of this transparent recognition of your true nature.

The recognition of your true nature is much simpler and quieter. It's just a recognition of the presence of awareness that lies continually present in the background of all experience. You just come back to the fact of being or being aware. That's it. There’s nothing exotic about it. In a way, it's safest if it is as quiet as that because then you can never turn around and claim some marvellous enlightenment experience.

This video is taken from one of Rupert's in-person retreats at The Vedanta – 17th to 24th September, 2022. To view and book for upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

Timestamps:

​​0:00 Awakening Experience
0:54 Felt Bliss Then Lost It
1:13 Your True Nature Is Not A State
2:14 Does Enlightenment Affect Your Body?
3:00 You Could Go There Now.
3:48 How Awakening Affects Your Mind
4:52 Being At Peace For No Reason.
5:50 Eckhart Tolle
6:30 Shinryo Suzuki
6:46 Enlightenment Is Not An Experience
7:34 Defining ‘experience’
7:40 Being Is Not Exotic
9:34 The Awareness Of Being
9:47 The Quietest Recognition There Is
10:15 Peak Experiences

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[Auraspure]

It always confused me to hear words like this, because my pain was there and i always tried to get rid of that pain through words from spiritual teachers. Once you notice this awareness often enough by listening to teachers, try to feel pain and whats very important ALLOW pain. When you start allowing it, you free yourself from suffering. You will still feel the pain till the end of your time but you develop a completely different attitude towards the pain. Pain will no longer your enemy, pain will become your friend. Love you all, keep going and never give up. You guys are the reason why the world is evolving. ❤

[wilma]

" Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all."

~ A Course in Miracles ~

[brigitteh]

There's something so peaceful and comforting when Rupert speaks and then there's the wisdom on top. I do so enjoy his talks and his humour.

[IvetaWells]

Don’t you just love how simple this is and how well and easily understandable Rupert’s explanation is. I
He’s the best. I love you Rupert ❤️

[rarjungle]

Truly realizing that you are one with all that is, is a profound shift in consciousness and would not go unnoticed for the average human. Also the pure joy of beingness is not something you would just fail to notice. In fact quite the opposite.

[drygordspellweaver]

96 comments in this video and all of them from enlightened masters. Amazing!

If they can’t even have the basic self honesty and humility to admit they are NOT enlightened, how in the world will they find the truth? Is it any mystery why the failure rate is so high in this industry?

People, humble yourselves!

[neosugarland]

Awareness has always been there and always will. But the mind is fascinated, excited, making sense and labeling everything that happened and experiences. You are not the mind nor the body which only make sense when one realizes that you are pure awareness that sees all and observes all. Namaste.

[Jen_lois]

Agree with his statement, that there can be by-products of the recognition of one's true nature. Actually, the true nature has many dimensions. What she experienced was the dimension of 'bliss' within the recognition. The next morning, it was no more there, but she is still very near to the 'emptiness' or her 'true nature'. And she can simply 'be' it by what he is telling her.

[agnieszkag.]

I am no more upset in my relationships, because a new knowledge of setting boundaries come to my mind and I told people they are not allowed to scream at me and throw at me their agresive energy. Also I walked away from people with too much ego. This is what makes me happy.

[John]

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage~ Ramana Maharshi

[IamHumbleD]

It was a very calm talk. Of course it's all a book written in 1902 called "Examples of religious experience". Everybody has the deliverance of realisation come in a way that is perfect to them. For me it felt like my chest was going to crack open with the love that was pouring out of me for all those that I saw at the local shopping centre, then I could "feel/hear" all their worries and fears and the love went even higher if that was possible that they didn't even know how loved they brain immediately goes, this is what it feels like to be a God/Be God.
After all that everything changed, I gave away almost everything of what I owned in material sense.
Now I live by grace/abundance/prosperity. "Put no store aside", somehow it's still working even after 2 years.
LIke Alan Watts says it's like falling in love, and for me it really was, even though I know there's nobody else here, hi me, it's you - or Hi you, you're me. May they all be one as I and the great mother are one....
Blessings to all beings.

[ArturBalthazar]

About the woman who shared her experience of being in a higher state of mind, seems like Rupert disgerdaded that as important, but I feel you, I had that once when I was 14 years old and it's to date the most profound experience I've ever had, that blew away anything else this world has to offer, even if mulplied by a thousand times. This is not just like any other state of mind, a good metaphor would be if you imagine yourself in a train going towards the light at the end of this dark tunnel we call life, and during the path, you look to your side and you can see a crack in the tunnel with a little opening, and just by an instant you can see the light, you can feel what it is to be free of your false self, but you know there's still work to do. So it's not that you achieved enlighenment with that, but that is certainly a pointer that can motivate you to continue on your path with even more determination.

[truesight]

'The awareness of being is the quietest recognition there is' and that is why it is often the most challenging to recognize :)

[johnnylovessheki]

He’s right, it’s unexplainable, I like the close to explanation in one of Joseph Goldstein’s talks when he said you can’t paint space, stand in awareness, and it will reveal itself because it’s is the all..

[lisahinkofer]

She said sitting on a park bench for hours. Yes I’ve done that. I’ve sat in graveyards for hours. Being still. Being quiet. Just being. Stillness is a way of talking with god. Just watching the trees the sky people walking by. Or just walking in the woods. It’s all a form of meditation awareness. Quiet so still the mind can be.

[alertstillness]

Honest and best explanation by Rupert. Soon as one talks about their (any) experience the mind has now entered and that only takes you away from the "transparent" state of awareness. Best to just notice the aware state and remain silent...and not let the mind say " I wonder if this is the enlightenment experience" The slightest deception by the ego to rise up, will make one fall from grace. The transparent awareness free of thoughts is the most sacred and holiest state, why exchange it for mindless chatter about experiences, leave that to Sadgurus and others that want "views" "likes" and "click Subscribe"

[radhakrishna]

Pranaam❤....
Enlightenment... Means to.... Lighten your self
From every day... Burdens...
Mother nature accomplishes everything... Effortlessly....
Man is a part of mother nature..
All animals live in harmony with mother nature....
Human beings... Most
Outlandish...
Human.. Ego... Distortion of nature...
Enlightenment...
Shedding... All... Ego...
Atam and brahman..
Mirror imagine...

[ButterflyAwakening]

It's a beautiful day here in the UK, take a deep breath and let go of any negativity. Allow the energy of positivity and abundance to flow into your soul! 🦋🦋🦋😊

[concepciongarciaredondo]

Thank you for this explanation. When I "saw" that there was noone here, I felt (at that moment) that it was very bad. I was very young (4-6 years old). When I remembered this, I didn't know what to do with it. Now I think that it was a waking up. But I could only relate it to what Ramesh Balsekar said. And now, listening to you, I feel calmer. Thank you

[johnburman]

This is so apt. I am so tired of all this discussion of know who I am and have always been.