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The Intersection Between the Finite and Infinite
In this discussion exploring time and space Rupert illustrates how, by investigating our experience and questioning our perceptions, we find that ‘here’ exists at the intersection between space and the infinite, and ‘now’ exists where time meets the eternal.
Rupert says: ‘From the point of view of time, now is a moment, but in our experience, it is not. It is always now, and we never leave now. So, now is not a moment sandwiched between the past and the future. No one has ever experienced the past or the future. Now is the ever-present; it is eternity. It is the place where time and eternity intersect. And that is why, in the spiritual traditions, the now is a portal through which we pass out of time into eternity.
‘In the same way, the only experience we have is here. If I were to ask you to stand up and go over there, would you leave here? Has anyone been to the place called “there”? The experience here is always the same. In other words, here is not a place in space - all space takes place here. So, here is the place at which we pass out of space into the infinite.
‘Remember William Blake: “This life’s dim windows of the soul / Distorts the heavens from pole to pole / And leads you to believe a lie / When you see with, not through, the eye.”’
*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Garrison Institute, 26 March-2 April 2023. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Exploring Time and Space
0:25 Where Time Intersects with Eternity
1:36 Where Space Intersects with the Infinite
3:30 We Don’t Exist in Time and Space
4:02 William Blake
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We Only Need One Commandment
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Komentáře

  • @sabaarunanthy6296
    @sabaarunanthy6296 Před 7 minutami

    Beautiful ❤

  • @mrmensa1096
    @mrmensa1096 Před 3 hodinami

    Climate Change being due to CO2 is obsolute BS - Another SCAM to make people rich and restrict our Freedoms. CO2 makes up ONLY 4 HUNDREDTHS of ONE percent of the atmosphere that's 00.04% The MAIN environmental destruction is CHEMTRAILS - Toxic Pollution and geoengineering !!!

  • @pedrogaspar10
    @pedrogaspar10 Před 4 hodinami

    Cold and warm at the same time; distant and close. 45:48 Reminds me of these lines from the Tao Te Ching: When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king.

  • @coachgnosis
    @coachgnosis Před 5 hodinami

    I do not see why this particular philosophy or fact is relavent or useful. Time and distance are useful parameters for assessing when and where we get things done. These ideas assist us, even though there is no real place called there, or when. Perhaps contemplating the fact that all there is is now, helps some souls stop focusing on ideas of past, future, or somewhere else and helps them settle in stillness, understanding they arent letting go of anything real, because what holds them is their belief in the unreal, over the real.

  • @mk91-vz1oj
    @mk91-vz1oj Před 8 hodinami

    "that's all well and good sir, but this is an AA meeting..."

  • @fam4449
    @fam4449 Před 8 hodinami

    Every line is ultimately part of a much larger curve

  • @The_Noblesse
    @The_Noblesse Před 12 hodinami

    Time is a concept created by people

  • @Kube_Dog
    @Kube_Dog Před 13 hodinami

    A photon experiences no time and no space. The moment it is emitted from, say, our sun, it is instantly at the place it is absorbed, say, a planet 100 light years from here, and every micro-space in between. It is like a long line of light appears in an instant. This is from the photon's perspective. From ours, it takes 100 years and it seems to cover distance.

  • @Kube_Dog
    @Kube_Dog Před 13 hodinami

    Thank you, Spira team, for not having an ear-splitting chime at the beginning of each video.

  • @bille77
    @bille77 Před 14 hodinami

    30:16 So the term "infinite consciousness" is ultimately misleading. ❤

  • @bille77
    @bille77 Před 14 hodinami

    Dear Rupert and everybody else. You're talking about "knowing" and "being". I wonder how "doing" fits in, since we all have to do so awfully much each and every day.

  • @mrd1228
    @mrd1228 Před 15 hodinami

    8:42 if u push it away, that will reinforce it 👏❤️ perfect

  • @alisonsalter8352
    @alisonsalter8352 Před 16 hodinami

    In response to the comment below, I can go one further: “Musicians are mystics and poets who don’t do satsang OR write OR speak.” Music is the Infinite shining most infinitely in this finite world. It is right on the edge, formless, between the seemingly infinite and finite. 🙏🏽

  • @experiencesourceself358
    @experiencesourceself358 Před 17 hodinami

    Stunning, stunning! Mr Rupert. I appreciate your teaching so much. So satiating and satisfying ❤❤❤

  • @kurtpiket6513
    @kurtpiket6513 Před 17 hodinami

    I think there is a time/space of emotional waves, where inside those waves there is a centre. By this centre it is possible to transform those waves into vertikal lines of infiniteness of feelings. Now time is gone and space also. Oneness is the result.

  • @lizettegratacoswys2958
    @lizettegratacoswys2958 Před 19 hodinami

    So so beautiful 💫

  • @TimCCambridge
    @TimCCambridge Před 19 hodinami

    ~Hi. Great! Close and far are one distance... The " here and there " analogy is similar to the Daoist " This and That "... this ball I throw from here becomes that ball over there... The thisness has the potency of being thatness... the middle way.

  • @frankt1581
    @frankt1581 Před 19 hodinami

    This is the key to any law enforcement negotiation.The FBI term it " Tactical Negotiation '.The ability to see an event or situation from another's perspective. You don't necessarily have to agree with them.But put yourself in their shoes.

  • @ChristopherTripos
    @ChristopherTripos Před 20 hodinami

  • @vipulchaturvedi996
    @vipulchaturvedi996 Před 20 hodinami

    Rupert it reminds me of Papaji@Punjaji, the direct desciple of Maharshi Raman , whose first published discourse dwelled on just this- Here and Now_.in a book called wake up and roar. Iam sure you must have known and heard of him. Be blessed for you are carrying on a great tradition and spreading the word, inspiring more people.

  • @franks435
    @franks435 Před 21 hodinou

    Just when I thought it couldn't get any better ... along came this magic triangle of Simon, Rupert and Don. Thank you. 🙏🏿

  • @gireeshneroth7127
    @gireeshneroth7127 Před 22 hodinami

    Living a mind wake consciousness worldbeing itself.

  • @spiritlightpajic7299

    👁️"Be STILL and KNOW That🕉️♾️🤍🌅and ☮️"🙏Namaste 🪷🦢🦋

  • @sampoornamkannan
    @sampoornamkannan Před dnem

    Finite is a mere portrait on the infinite canvas. You can never fill up. It is an unending painting job. You can be either happy or sad with the present brush strokes

  • @safahummel9396
    @safahummel9396 Před dnem

    Beautiful and profound thank you Rupert 🙏🏻❤️

  • @kathyryan7611
    @kathyryan7611 Před dnem

    ❤❤❤

  • @Huyenmon777
    @Huyenmon777 Před dnem

    🇻🇳🙏🙏🙏 From Vietnam.

  • @hemamalinirs1002
    @hemamalinirs1002 Před dnem

    Exactly!!!!! This is what I exactly feel . Thank you so much Rupert , lots of love and gratitude 🙏 ❤❤

  • @FlotzKonakos
    @FlotzKonakos Před dnem

    What a masterpiece.

  • @alfreddifeo9642
    @alfreddifeo9642 Před dnem

    Rupert as a Robin Hood 🎯🎯🎯or💘

  • @sunisagotirat1332
    @sunisagotirat1332 Před dnem

    Thank you🙏❤️💢👁🎯

  • @estafarr
    @estafarr Před dnem

    One without a second.

  • @frun
    @frun Před dnem

    This is John Wheeler's motion without motion - the changing surrounding gives the appearance of motion. There could be only one place in the Universe.

  • @kimwaite8916
    @kimwaite8916 Před dnem

    I FEEL this and love the simple way you explain it. I will sit with this and the troubles of the world do not exist, they aren't even important except relatively but a far second to this. Even "second" to this , it is far far away and the further I explore the farther away it seems to go as the space seems to expand and no movement is required. In simple word forms but not understood in experience, it will seem like some kind of bizarre philosophy perhaps worthy of a glimpse in thought, but once glimpsed and understood within, it is a different matter altogether! It doesn't even require years of practice because it simply and profoundly IS. Try going within to a memory of long ago when you were not identified as an idea of yourself in thoughts and beliefs and see that it is still here and now. It has always been.

  • @ericaglesk3254
    @ericaglesk3254 Před dnem

    Rupert does believe what he says but these non dual concepts do not give you peace& happiness. You end up so confused & dissociated, I was on the verge of sucide. Meditation, retreats, watching your thoughts& the craziest , looking for yourself.(strange practices that make no sense)give you non dual experiences but they are new age beliefs. We are humans who suffer& experience time& space. God gave us the ability to think& reflect. We are not God& falling for these concepts will prove it when you finally step off the hamster wheel. No worries though cause the experience you have of a separate self is false. STAND FOR NOTHING & FALL FOR ANYTHING.

    • @Iam590
      @Iam590 Před dnem

      Belief in God is as much real as superman

    • @84sahi
      @84sahi Před dnem

      I see where you’re coming from. You need experience the NOW. What he is saying because he experienced non duality . But someone who hasn’t been on path for years and not experienced it not easy to be non duality. Even for experienced teachers it’s not easy. Some teachers become non duality in 1 year or 1 second but for some it might takes lifetimes.

    • @kurtpiket6513
      @kurtpiket6513 Před 17 hodinami

      God is present INSIDE. The infinite and the finite meets inside here/now. In this here/now inside humane beings there is a possibility to transform the emotional waves of good and bad into the right enerrgy of vertikal lines. A breathing process is needed for this.

    • @Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation
      @Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation Před 7 hodinami

      La illaha ila Allah, God listens to the one who praise Him, my God, You are the Most Great, You are the Most Divine, my Lord, Your Plan for us is Great, and every man shall taste death, and this is just the beginning! --------- Non-duality is falsehood. Religion is Truth. God is NOT man. God IS SEPERATE from man, He is One and Single. That's all you non-dual hippe dmt consuming terrence mckein ;) If God was a man, Who did I see that night of Glory (when I saw God and destroyed possibly one of the most powerful satanical-demons in existence) ? It didn't look like a human man or woman. And who is with me right now, and been with me every single day for over 3 years now 24/7 non-stop ? (God). Not myself or a human that's for sure. My Father is Greater than I. Exalted and Great is God. Who is this Other? (God). Not me or an other human. That's for sure. Two, not one. Non duality hippe lsd is 🦋 and sunshine ☀ and love you love you love you (<the insane comedy of low-status spiritual people, as for me, I'm a prophet) And I've just begun. If I wrote why non duality is falsehood, all of it... It's coming.

  • @Green-Dragon206
    @Green-Dragon206 Před dnem

    "No one has experienced the past or the future." My answer is: What would you know? "There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio"

  • @skpince
    @skpince Před dnem

    Poets are mystics who don't do satsang, mystics are poets who don't write poems.

    • @Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation
      @Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation Před 7 hodinami

      I'll rather write a powerful Islamic supplication to God. Mystic? My spiritual legacy is Prophetic. La illaha ila Allah. God listens to the one who praise Him. God answers His highest slave's prayers constantly. God rewards (after putting His slaves trough brutal tests) with the allowance to see Him (the impossible, highest of highest attainments). And demons, I am their god now and forever no pun intended. The soul is Mighty. Two, not one. God is not a human baby nor is a human God. Bye.

    • @skpince
      @skpince Před 7 hodinami

      @@Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation speak from your own direct experience. That's what counts.

    • @Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation
      @Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation Před 5 hodinami

      ​​​@@skpincethat's what I do. Lol My direct spiritual experiences are messianic.

  • @alfreddifeo9642
    @alfreddifeo9642 Před dnem

    🙏🙏🙏❤

  • @souljah37
    @souljah37 Před dnem

    ❤️‍🔥🙏🏿

  • @TheHmmka
    @TheHmmka Před dnem

    🌿

  • @paris8711
    @paris8711 Před dnem

    In my experience, God is omniscient and compassionate towards all beings, otherwise He wouldn't be God. Being or pure presence is only a facet of God. It is God from the point of view of Wisdom, from the point of view of mind. But God is much bigger. Unity does not mean that God is inert or a thing. God can be perceived either in a personal or an impersonal way in oneneness. Both are true, but they are different experiences. You can feel God loving you as the sea caring for a wave. Or you can feel that you are the sea, full of love and compassion for the waves that are part of you. To say that God only knows reality from a human point of view to me is too risky. How do you know? We don't know how God sees reality from his point of view. It is true that we can experience that he sees the world through us as infinite consciousness from a human perspective. But he can do the same through animals. And it might be possible that he is really omniscient and can perceive the world from different points of view manners or perceptions. We don't know. Otherwise we would believe that God didn't knew the world before humanity and animals were created. Was He unconscious before? Couldn't he enjoy the galaxies when they were created? I think that sometimes we want to put God in a shoe's box, but God is always greater and a Mystery.

  • @kundaliniairport
    @kundaliniairport Před dnem

    uau .. never saw him struggeling.. this much

  • @danieleslava115
    @danieleslava115 Před dnem

    a story in a space/time nexus , a tone poem .

  • @HemPat56
    @HemPat56 Před dnem

    Wonderful. Clear to see that all depends on how "I" is defined. 🙂

  • @mariabentele7909
    @mariabentele7909 Před dnem

    Thank you 🌹

  • @pamelahall7614
    @pamelahall7614 Před dnem

    That is inquiry. When we are unclear it may take time to verbalize

  • @pilargarcia6724
    @pilargarcia6724 Před dnem

    🙏🤍💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🤎🩶

  • @TheAmbamatamantrasvideos

    we never touched the horizon . we were never yesterday.. or tomorrow.