Ego Desires and Fears the Understanding

A woman says that her family has been trying to get non-Christian friends to go to church with them so they don’t burn in hell. She says: ‘You speak about things that would cause difficulties with religious philosophy, but you are talking about things that bring peace. So why does awareness make it so difficult to come to this realisation?’ Rupert tells her that the actual answer is, ‘I don’t know’. At best, he can say the sense of separation feels so strongly real in people that when they meet this understanding, the separate self perceives it as a death. Although, ultimately, that’s all the separate self wants, because separation is the cause of its suffering, so it desires and fears the understanding in equal measure, like the moth toward the flame. He goes on to express an optimism beyond rationalism that eventually the truth will prevail.

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

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