Why am I Not Enlightened Yet?

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  @amunra4015 · 5 years ago

  40 years seeking!  40 years!   I can't imagine looking for my glasses for 40 years only to realize I was wearing them the whole time.

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  @sevc007 · 7 years ago

  A must see video for people "seeking" Enlightement in my opinion. Only after watching this I realized I was looking in the wrong direction. Before, I thought I had  to get rid of all my negative traits in order to reach Enlightenment like it was a standard that had to be met by me in order to attain It

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  @voyagelove554 · 12 years ago

  ''I am not a cluster of thoughts and feelings, all these flow by. But I am not flowing by, I am just always here.''

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  @justfornow-u8c · 3 years ago

  I have watched, listened to hours upon hours of spiritual teachers but this has to be one of the best explanations of enlightenment/non duality I have heard and have watched it repeatedly mainly because of the peace that comes upon me.

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  @kevy1yt · 10 years ago

  Amazing how Rupert explains this. What a gift.

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  @gailkathryn4555 · 10 years ago

  What a gentle, clear presentation. Thank you, thank you! The questioner is a.good representative for us all.

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  @vytautas456 · 11 years ago

  This is so simple, yet so difficult to understand. It is difficult because it is so damn simple!!!

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  @vetiarvind · 12 years ago

  I love the honest conversation they're having.

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  @helenbakker5176 · 3 years ago

  It is a difficult thing to describe. I was in this situation until a couple of months ago. I was being the seeker. I believe this is what this lady is describing. Yes, it is very frustrating after many years to be still waiting for "Awakening" or "Enlightenment". Helen Hamilton helped me realise that I needed to let go of the seeker and realise that just what I am is the awareness. I wish this lady many blessings and that she has now realised that she is the awareness that she seeks.

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  @landonturner9012 · 12 years ago

  "nothing else can be aware that I am aware" ~ wonderful line!

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  @tonyjudickas4335 · 7 years ago (edited)

  I fear I would not get it either if it was explained to me in the same way.  So here is how I actually figured it out with the help of Alan Watts and Mooji teachings and doing what they recommended.  First I came to learn of the etymology of words and what they were really meant to mean.  I think in language so I should have an innerstanding of these words to think exactly and clearly.  1st great breakthrough was Alan Watts speaking about the word "Person".  It was always meant as "per-son(na)" which from Latin means"thru-sound", referring to the masks with mini megaphones the ancient Greeks wore in their plays.  These masks identified the character the actor was to play.  Made me understand that my person was just a role I was playing in life and just a mask I was wearing and could change.  I realized my person(ality) or `mask`` was formed by my thoughts about experiences I had gone through.  I was a blank slate when born and I got imprinted by my parents conditioning, school, language, media and all sorts of propaganda.  2nd great breakthrough was thoughts and mind.  Thoughts are just something you think and mind is bundles of thoughts.  Thoughts are correct or false and always changing in my bundle of thoughts mind.  Thoughts and mind are two words which are really the same thing.  So I noticed my thoughts that I kept thinking, formed my beliefs which made my ``mask`` of this ``person`` I was identified as.  So I realized further that my thoughts, mind, mask(person) were actually all the same thing.   3rd great breakthrough was that my awareness was actually different than my thoughts, mind, mask(person).  I could separate my awareness from this group of thoughts, mind, mask(person).  Wooji helped me with this and I could experience it in meditation.  Awareness,consciousness is the root, foundation which can stand alone in silence without my --------thoughts, mind, mask(person) part.  My pure awareness when meditating with eyes closed is silent and without images being aware of itself and everything, not engaging or focusing on any thought if they are to come. just being in a baby state being aware.  This is my true ``I am`` that I was born with before any of the thought, mind, mask(person) bundle came into existence.  This is enlightening to know.  Now to live in this awakened state of ignoring my thoughts, mind, mask(person).  Only soaking in awareness, going deeper in the silence and mystery of this awareness.  Hope my sharing helps someone out there.

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  @lisastreitfeld5806 · 5 years ago (edited)

  This video is a work of art.  The bouquet coordinating with the plush backdrop and the lighting are extraordinary …enhancing Rupert’s divine Beingness as he describes his own state of being present in total awareness.

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