Monday 30 April 2018

A Peace, Prior to, and Independent of Experience

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Seven Day Retreat at Mercy Center, CA - May 2018

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00:14

In this meditation we pay attention to the peaceful nature of the field within which all experience arises, exists, and into which it vanishes. We see that attention always travels in this same field of awareness.

52:55 mins

53:09

A woman describes her experience as 'peaceful curiousity' so questions the use of the word 'Happiness of Being' used in the teaching.

5:24 mins

58:33

A woman new to the teaching wonders if everything she does is just fine because 'consciousness is just there'.

2:29 mins

1:01:02

A woman asks for clarification as to why Rupert uses the analogy of physical space to describe a quality of awareness.

13:14 mins

1:14:16

A woman at the retreat for the first time says that her thoughts are happening in her head.

15:33 mins

1:29:49

A man claims that being aware is under his conscious control.

6:49 mins

1:36:38

Rupert elaborates on the distinction between awareness and attention.

4:32 mins

1:41:10

A man questions the eternal nature of awareness.

6:01 mins

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