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How can we be certain that we are experiencing being and that our experience of awareness, or being, is what is spoken of by the sages and in spiritual texts?

Rupert says: ‘Everybody is always experiencing their being. It’s not possible not to experience your being – just like it’s not possible for the sun not to illuminate itself. Even if the highest authority were to tell you that you don’t exist, you would say it’s not true, because you are that confident in your own being.

‘Imagine the Buddha was here, and that he was aware of the sight of this room in the same way that we are. Then imagine the qualities of the awareness that enables the Buddha to be aware of this room, and then go to your own awareness. How do you imagine your awareness differs from the Buddha’s awareness?

‘If there was a difference between the two, then that difference would have to have a quality. But if I asked you to describe the experience of being aware, you would be unable to say anything, because there is nothing objective there. So, how could there be differences between awarenesses, if awareness has no objective quality?’

*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Mercy Center, 18–25 October 2024. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

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Timestamps:

0:00 Simply Being
1:58 Experiencing Nothingness
3:36 Experiencing Being
4:43 Exploring ‘I Am’
8:21 Describing Awareness
10:12 Being Certain of Being
12:20 Awareness Is Always the Same
14:20 Awareness Has No Objective Qualities

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