The Only Radical Teaching Is Silence
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- It is said that the greatest teaching is silence, but how does that fit in with contemporary spirituality? And if all teachings other than silence are a concession to the separate self, how can contemporary non-dual teachers reconcile that in their work?
Rupert says that all teachers, even the ones who claim to be totally radical and say ‘there is no separate self’, ‘there's nobody here’, or ‘there's nothing to do’ would not be speaking if they really thought that. If there's nobody here, then who are they speaking to? The fact that they are doing it betrays the fact that they do think that there is somebody there to listen, and they do think that there is something for that person to do. The only radical teaching is silence.
So yes, I make compassionate concessions, but different amounts of concession, depending on one, my mood, and two, the person I'm speaking to. I feel strongly that the expression of the non-dual understanding needs to be tailored in the moment to each person and that one of the hallmarks of a genuine teaching is a teaching that is not principled - that doesn't always say the same thing in response to all the different questions, but tailors the understanding sensitively, uniquely, question by question.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Spiritual Bypassing
1:06 Making Concessions To The Separate Self
1:43 There Is No One Here
2:05 The Teaching Of Silence
2:55 Adapting Spiritual Teaching
4:33 Hallmarks Of True Teaching
5:24 Incorrect Spiritual Teaching
7:27 Seeming Contradictions In Spirituality
8:05 How To Manage The Ego
8:34 Being Spontaneous
8:45 Self-Enquiry
9:16 The Tantric Approach
9:43 Being Flexible In Dealing With The Ego
11:09 Being Balanced
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Silence is gods hymn. Silence is the way. Silence is now. Silence is here. Silence is behind the eyes. Silence is pure intelligence before coming into form. Silence is where all begins and all ends. Surely, silence must hold the secrets of this life. What else could carry this entire existence, but silence itself?
It is so refreshing to hear a well-known, nondual teacher like Rupert calling out the neo-advaita tactic of answering every question with the smug, "who's asking?" It's rote, mechanical, boring, and lacks compassion. Like Rupert said, if those teachers really believed what they're teaching (there is nobody, there is nothing), then they wouldn't bother teaching.... what would be the point? Thank you for saying this out loud, Rupert!
I once heard Matt Kahn,( whom I felt was addressing mostly people with personal problems) saying something similar - that there's nothing sillier than hearing someone go on and on about Advaita, Zen etc and then saying " no-one is saying this " !!
Compassion, yes, or lack thereof, that's what it is about, I always think, when teachers want to be 'the teacher' with their answers, rather than a wise, sympathetic listener.
Who is posting this message on CZcams, and who is reading it? Who made the phone that "Im" using to write this message? And if there is nobody here to read this message, and there was nobody to write the message, then can we safely assume there was never any message that was ever written.
Jackson Peterson is a prime offender.
@@stephenrutherford I think that there's a teacher for all types of people, and that tactic may work for some. There's a reason we have so many ways of delivering the same message, we all need different things at different times as we are so varied in our journeys. Rupert allows himself to be more of a custom deliverer over a cookie cutter style. Both are valid, but attract different types of people.
Namaste: As French composer Eric Satie illustrates so clearly in his compositions, it is the silence -- the 'doors' -- between the notes, wherein possibility most resides.
So true . Swami Ramana Maharishi, was always seen in Silence.
Actually if you lsiten past 5 minutes, he's saying the opposite. :) And yes, ramana did advise "individuals" depending on their level of understanding. to some he advised surrendering to "god". to some he said theres no separate God, and so on.
I am realizing that I read the books, watch the videos, go to the meetings, etc. they glide into Silence and that is the melting power irresistible❣️ definitely a lifeline until the letting go happens; Silence just is, within, or without, watching videos or reading books or not. oh, the sweetness of holding on; The joy in letting go❣️☮️❤️🔥
There indeed does come a time, at least for some, where the talks, the questions and answers and the books become redundant and distracting. Where we once tried to 'figure out' who we were through words, there comes a time when all we want to do is rest in Silence. As Rupert points out, Silence is the most radical teaching there is, and there have been a few teachers over the millennia who have primarily taught from It's power and depth, but not many.
Robert Adams...its his main teaching..he even says the teaching is not in his words but the silence between his words...
That time is now ❤️🔥
@@take.it.easy...9154 there is no time. Only the apparent now.
Guess you answered your own take in your first sentence. lol
Not necessarily when they become distracting, but also dropping all practice for a while and literally doing nothing. Often we still have a belief somewhere that if we don't do something, do some inquiry or some meditation we regress and lose everything we 'worked' for. Of course there is nothing to gain. For this process you have to lose everything, you have to die in a way. Silence and doing actually nothing at all can bring up this fear of regression and it can be intense aswell, it can bring up a lot.
Being in human bodies, people cannot help but want to engage with others and talk. If we truly live in a non dual way, we would be content being silent and alone. How many people in the world are like that? Free of these bodies as pure consciousness we can be, but most after death will still be attached to form and want to experience it again.
Yes.u r totally right..Silence n Stillness is the essence of reality...If u observed deeply,every human being has been shaped into doing through action and talking and keep talking,that's why the world is full of nonsense and there's nothing more but knowledge but no inner wisdom...if the world humanity can sit and stay in stillness in quietness and silent,the energy of the world is totally transformed simply...We are being lie in this educated world that change is through movement but reality is change through remain in presence with awareness but no movement of thought n action
So it's perpetuated? (not being as silence & stillness)
This needed to be said, because some nondual teachers can really mess with people’s heads, and send them down a nihilistic rabbit hole.
Yes one should be careful as mind seems to love extremes.
Silence is our final teacher ❤
First and last
Beautiful teaching here. I love the nuance and subtlety of Spira's responses. Unfanatical and profound.
Pure Silent Now is not a student of Itself. Truth can neither be taught nor learned. Being All, It neither leads nor follows.
Oh I just realised that I was doing this years ago as a student of technology. I faced the final, main exam after a whole year of intense study and I just had to pass. So on the day, I just sat down in the exam room and went silent. With each question on the exam paper I responded (in writing) the First thing that appeared within the mind. It wasn't a loud knowing I'd normally get from the mind, but the first subtle awareness of the answer. Sometimes I wasn't sure that a really complex question was answered correctly, but it turned out to be right. I got full marks and passed the exam! So maybe it's the same with important choices in life you have to make?
Happy Thursday! Amidst the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, it's important to take a moment to connect with our spiritual selves. Remember to breathe deeply, be present in the moment, and have faith that everything happens for a reason. Trust in the universe and trust in yourself, and let love and positivity guide you on your journey today and every day.💜🦋
Totally agree, the only teacher is silence and the only place I find it is within and if I decided to start teaching people I have to acknowledge the use of myself to go out there and do so and not give people glebe answers like “ there’s no one here and no one’s talking “ as I realize that already and I feel at some level most of us do
So people like Rupert, Echkart and Byron Katie are my go to for tools to help as I’ve always realised the answer is within the apparent me and especially the silence
Infinite Intelligence loves to revel in Itself. A book of this nature can only seem to be written because Infinite Intelligence is here, now. What Is, is the message, the messenger and the knower of the message.
This is something I get through every day. I deal with a lot of people at work, and I responsible for them. Sometimes I have to be really soft and sometimes I have to become more firmly. But it is an industrial environment, there are times that doesn't matter what I do, the only solution is to fire someone.
But when I finish the problem and I'm silent I can feel that the love for everyone is the same, including myself.
You are 'Loving awareness'. Blessings. 🙏
EXACTLY 😂😂😂😂BA HAPPY
Thank you Rupert 🙏 🌟
I loved everything about this! Thanks so much for clarifying something I’ve been debating with myself ❤
Silence … Allows one to surrender The Seeker , thus, allowing one to become The Sought After…🙏🏻🌟
No Teacher, no student, no teaching not even One!
Muchísimas gracias!!!❤🙏😊
"Attending their meetings and reading their books!" lol!
5:30 I love it. Tailored answers for a specific questions for a specific people. How appropriate
Thank you again my friend.
Wonderful 💛
Es maravilloso ver cómo Rupert es muy humano y comprensivo. Reconoce tener cambios de humor y que la forma en que responde puede variar. No está subido a un pedestal, va a nuestro lado como un verdadero amigo.
He shouldn't have mood swings if he's enlightened, maybe he isn't.
Enlightening is only realising awareness, the joy of changing moods and energies never ceases. @@johnmc3862
Thank you, Rupert. Your explanation has been of a great value. I feel its perfect logic
Thank you for your Heart, Rupert, which understands and feels everyone! ❤
Probably the best podcast I have seen. Thank you for sharing.
🌅Yes☺️Thank Y🪷u Rupert for Sharing👁️Individual that Has Realized They TRUE Self and ITS Nature , Has Repertoire of tools and Skills to Cater to Every occasion in Unique way or Expression Needed for THAT particular moment🙏Namaste🦋
Recently It seems the answers are waiting for the question. Thank you, My Lord, you hear my prayers and answering in such a way I can not deny you are communing with me. So lovely, your voice, so strong the foundation you layed before me. Surely, this must have been love that moved you.
This is a brilliant teaching. Practically illustratet. The only radical teaching is silence and the sound is gone from the video. Brilliant 😂
This is Great Rupert❤ every patient has to be dealt with so uniquely bcoz everybody is so minute atom❤❤❤
So beautiful and genius
Can’t thumbs up this enough!!! 🎉🎉🎉
woww this was perfection,this is so important to understand in these times with all these "teachers" that talk about "radical non duality",but you can feel that they are still at the beginning of the work
Rupert you are a maestro of the music of silence. I’m still waiting for your “John Cage 4’33”.❤
comparison has no place or need in abundant consciousness. Experience both aspects as they are, in their individual expression of just this. Set yourself free x
Unless the mind is still, silent there's no real transformation. Teachings help the "individual" come to that state, nothing more nothing less.
Don't you think if transformation was to be brought about by silence alone many many humans would have attained Muksha?
I think rupert non dual is direct path through Jnana yoga, that destroys ignorance of the separate self. Yes, silence is paramount but is not conditional. Waves of thoughts can raise and subside in consciousness, If they aren't followed up but let alone with knowledge of advaita vedanta still liberation is possible. This pauses a questin; why is it that the bakhti raja & karma yogis have found it hard to attain salvation ? Because, the cause of separation that lead suffering is due to Ignorance and the only antidote is Self - Knowledge. BE HAPPY ❤❤
We need to ask the question, "What is true silence?". Perhap then we will see that most who seem to be in silence are actually not so. Hence answering your question.
Is the separate self an independent entity or an activity and false presumption ? Are not all beings, acting as if they independent and separate from one another, and Conscious Being itself? The Conscious Self and Source Condition of each living being lives in and as Conscious Spirit Light that is inherently interconnected and all-inclusive and thus non dual. This is radical understanding. In this radical understanding, the Awakening living being may fully Realize the non dual Single Source Condition (or State of Being) that is non separation. Yet, this One can still speak, move and serve all arising beings and things, seeing all likewise as non separate, or inherently One. Manifesting "Silence" freely, happily, as non dual Divine Being and Love.
Conscious Love Bliss Being. Love Ananda Adi Da speaks and transmits this non separation.
Full range it is!❤️
I feel this is my purpose to awaken and carry it on though legitimately being my truest self
Understanding is beautiful ❤
WoW ❤❤❤❤ thank you so much
That's right Rupert!!! That's what I said about them talking to people saying nobody's here. Lol. And I also said in comments without seeing your video called "God IS THE VERY SELF OF ALL OF US." I just said it in comments somewhere today! But I notice I make comments but I can't stop doing it. Especially ones waiting for the second coming of Christ. 😊🙏
I needed to hear this. I hear the neo-avaita people explain "emptiness," and I learn nothing.
It is not a bad thing sometime to doubt the person,it s only thinking and feeling sensing nothing else so the ego might deflate a bit and maybe some teacher do conference for those who still believe there is a person until they do not. Thanks Ruper great as usual.
This is the definition of profound, to me.
What would be profound would be if he could comprehend and explain the true meanings of "nothing to do" and "no one here" but he doesn't.
@@binathere2574 Why do you feel it needs explanation? What is there to comprehend? Do you think there is something "to do"? Something "to get", "to understand"? And who do you think there is to do anything, to know anything?
@@binathere2574 Yeah but it sounds like these people going to these meetings do so regularly. It is probably a lot closer to taking a semester of philosophy than you're crediting it.
He may not need to explain things that have been explained through previous dialogue.
I’ve been saying this exact thing on a dozen FB non dual pages and posts. Don’t wander into them anymore.
8:55 is the Buddhist approach, which Rupert calls “being very clinical” I would call it surgical. Following that recommendation he describes what he calls “the tantric approach,” which I would describe as a more nurturing response to arisen phenomena (I.e. feeling). I like that he states both work and suggests using discernment to choose the most effective response.
6.35 : Mechanical answer , observation: I am sorry I don't ageree with this statement. What else is self-enquiry supposed to be. Self enquiry is required to direct the mind back to its source. Answering to some one who is asking a question is required to be answered, that who is asking this question, because Self absolutely has no doubts and is absolutely peaceful and its the separate self who is in doubt and upset. Therefore the right answer is who is upset, who is in doubt etc. This is to encourage the mind to engage in self-enquiry and that is the best way.
Rupert’s way is better, it has the flexibility and potential to connect with more people which is the whole point of being a teacher. If the exact same answers was all that was needed no matter what the question, teachers would not exist; we could just write that answer down somewhere and everyone, everywhere, could reference it and find awakening. Clearly it is not at all that easy.
Upload carlos' video pls
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Consciousness takes the mind route and ends up being subject and objects in its own exclusivity.
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I've tried to make real sense of this, but I think Non-duality is incomprehensible.
It's contradictory and almost irrational. I think it diminishes, demeans an individual mind to say we are only other points of view in a whole/one being. I still can not quite understand how we can be one being when I'm obviously not you, whomever you are. It's not quite rational.
Why can't separation/individuality be a real thing even when we are all connected, even part of something bigger?
Why must individuality be diminished?
@@oscargamble3334 Other riddles and things that don't have to be.
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Silence Speaks Volumes. 😍. 💝. 😍. 🍀. 🐰. 💝. 🎸
Stop Paying Other People's BILLS
You should not even be paying your own. Never mind other people's.
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Up the Spiral. The question leads to the answer which leads to the next question. 🍥. 🆙. 🍥. 🆙
2 x 0. =. 1
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Precisely.
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It is hard to explain non duality because in reality all this that we ask for is not even there I agree that the ultimate learning is silence. But we need to understand Mind to let her go and understanding mind from mind is super hard.
I did not understand the video well, can someone explain it to me?
I don't understand because he has a website and a youtube channel and all that. Wouldn't that contradict what he is saying?
I guess he means it's a paradox. Using a CZcams channel etc to explain something thst ultimately you can't understand just from s youtube chanel. Words are pointers.
Tony Parson and Jim Newman, Please take a listen to Rupert here and stop hallucinating.
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😂 and well, he’s never been there anyway...
Nothing wrong with his teachings either. It’s uncompromising, works well at some points for some people and not at other points.
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Is he talking about silence in the room or silence of the mind...
Silence is what some people call Emptiness,
but 'Silence' is identical to Eternity, the 'I', the Eternal Living Being, and the Empty Space,
which means 'space-less space'.
So, there is No magic in the 'I', the Magic, is what the 'I' do,
through the Consciousness, have in Mind.
So, the analysis of the 'I' is very simple, it Exists,
but Understanding of our Eternal Life-Structure and Consciousness,
plus the creator-principles, is the Radical Study/Teaching.
To be or not to b is that the question
Not think, hope. We hope that there's someone else, we want there to be someone else. Simply because no one wants to be alone, especially not "god".
Is there a link to Carlos’s question? I would love to hear it.
Did anyone understand his response? If so can you please make it in simple language.
Yes, who is it that is saying they don't exist?
Just sit still. Be quiet. Sit still.
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You'd have to level up to understand "you need to do nothing" and "no one is here"
Yes they deserve an explanation, but only those with ears would hear it though.
Eckhart tolle
the ego answers mechanically to deflect from the truth in your mind, as you go along repeating 'affirmation', appearing to 'help'. Bc it thinks it has learned 'how to'. Method, technique may work one once or twice.
The egoic thought is more fear in the 'head' while God, Christ brings true release. No dogma no pat answers. Ask again.
Rupert is a fine spiritual teacher, intellectually and philosophically but he is not talking from a perspective of true enlightenment In my opinion.
Could silence is that noisy ?
So does this mean I shouldn’t right books on it?
Cause I really think it is needed to keep it going throughout humanity so they aren’t just “in” conceptualization
Eckharte Tolle did. It's entitled, "Stillness Speaks". It's my favorite and I never finished it. (seriously)
lol I didn't know Eckhart Tolle had a brother
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It's OK, I did not really post this comment.
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You'll catch up. Maybe not this lifetime though.
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By your own admission, this would include you too; since your lecturing to an audience
Ha ha, so Rupert must believe somebody is there for his talks.
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Spira my dear why do you refer ego in any way? lol.
More noise.
Happy Birthday to nobody 😂
There is no teaching no path I don't know what the hell are these so called spiritual teachers are doing here. You can write volumes about life but it is not going to help anybody. Looting money. What am I doing here is pointing it out
All talk about silence is futile!
Stop talking then?
Este tipo no sabe NADA de espiritualidad. Básicamente solamente está Cantinfleando y se pierde en sus propias ocurrencias !!
Rupert I'm reading the teaching of Buddha's mindfulness and the interesting thing about it is that this sutta does NOT contain the word 'silence' at all. The word silence appears 0 times in the teaching of mindfulness. The word contemplate appears over and over but the word silence is not in here at all.