Your Teaching Evolves with Understanding

A woman relates that she is deeply touched by what Rupert is sharing. She says that the teaching and sharing from the yoga and Buddhist traditions, which she has been over many years, don’t make much sense anymore – there’s too much extra, unnecessary stuff, and she asks how Rupert might explain the non-dual understanding to a group of people completely new to it? Would offering something like focussing on breath, etc., still even be relevant? Rupert replies that if he was to share through a public talk with a new group, he would not go deeply into the understanding. However, he wouldn’t spend more five minutes on the breath, or whatever. Maybe, he suggests, start with being aware of the entirety of your experience, including the breath, then ask: What is it that’s aware of all these things? What IS this ‘I’ that’s aware? Since she knows the specific groups she’s addressing, he advises her to just be as simple and clear as possible with them. He encourages her to allow her teaching to evolve with her understanding. ‘Because then your teaching is going to be alive.’

From event 20 April - 20 May, 2024 Seven-Day Meditation Retreat at Mandali – 20 to 27 April 2024

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