The Listening Presence of Awareness

A man in a non-monogamous relationship feels overwhelmed by jealous feelings and thoughts when his partner sees other people, and asks for guidance.

A woman says she is drawn to 'the path of not knowing and surrender' and asks Rupert how she can walk that path fully and understand its relationship to the practice of self-enquiry.

A man says he had a prolonged period of effortlessly being in touch with his true nature, and asks why that experience comes and goes.

A man asks if the ego serves a purpose.

A woman says she does not experience awareness during sleep. She asks Rupert to elaborate on the presence of awareness during sleep and suggest what she can do to experience it.

A physicist with a background in materialism says the conditioning of his childhood has resulted in a tendency towards intense anger that threatens his relationships. He asks Rupert for guidance about managing anger.

A therapist whose partner died seven years earlier while they were asleep in bed asks how to help her clients with their grieving.

A man says the end of a romantic relationship has brought to light aspects of his childhood conditioning. He asks how to investigate, understand and forgive these conditioned patterns.

A man with a history of childhood trauma says at times he becomes overwhelmed by fear, which obscures his ability to stand as awareness. He asks for suggestions on practices that can help him.

A man says he struggles with practicing yoga meditations and asks for advice on loosening the resistance he feels while doing them.

Rupert discusses memory, its role in our experience of the past and present, and how it relates to consciousness.

A woman asks how thoughts can create the separate self and how experience can both conceal and reveal reality.

A man suspects that the contraction in his body is emotional resistance to what is occurring and asks Rupert to comment.