Rupert Spira Apr 2, 2023 In this guided meditation we are invited to look beyond the limitations that perception and thought confer on reality. In doing so we see that the fact of simply being extends way beyond the limitations of the body and mind. Rupert says that when being looks at itself through the prism of perception it perceives itself as forms. When being looks at itself through the filter of thought, it knows itself as names. But when being looks at itself directly, unmediated, it experiences itself as it essentially is: Eternal, infinite, without a name or a form. As we sink more deeply into our being, our being loses the limitations that it borrows from the content of experience. The human experiences of peace, joy, love, and beauty are not really human experiences. They are instances where the infinite, the divine has seeped through the veil of appearances and is announcing itself in our world. This guided meditation was taken from one of Rupert’s retreats at the Vedanta February 18-25, 2023 IN-PERSON RETREATS SCHEDULE (Also Available to Join Online via Live Stream) ▸ UK https://rupertspira.com/event/locatio… ▸ US https://rupertspira.com/event/locatio… Timestamps: 0:00 Guided Meditation On Infinite Being 1:46 A Community Of The Spirit. 4:27 Losing Our Limitations 4:50 God’s Infinite Being. 5:58 Beyond The Limitations Of The Body. 6:24 Eroding The Belief ‘i Am This Body’ 10:43 Rumi 17:47 Removing The Limitations Of Perception And Thought 21:09 Peace, Joy, Love, And Beauty 27:05 The Recognition Of Our True Nature 30:22 Infinite Being Is All There Is 32:56 The World Is An Illusion. Only Brahman Is Real. Brahman Is The World. 33:25 The Crucifixion, The Resurrection And The Transfiguration. 36:18 Let The World Lose Itself In You
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Rumi and the Mysterion
By Kabir Helminski
Kabir Helminski is co-director, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge and practice of Sufism. He is the author of Living Presence and the translator of four volumes of Rumi’s poetry, including Love Is a Stranger and Rumi: Daylight. His new book is The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human.
Kabir’s website: sufism.org
Mentioned in the episode: Can a Computer Become Conscious by Federico Faggin from the SAND18 Conference
Rumi: the universe is within you
Rumi on wine
The grapes of my body can only become wine by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
English version by Andrew Harvey
Original Language Persian/Farsi & Turkish
The grapes of my body can only become wine
After the winemaker tramples me.
I surrender my spirit like grapes to his trampling
So my inmost heart can blaze and dance with joy.
Although the grapes go on weeping blood and sobbing
“I cannot bear any more anguish, any more cruelty”
The trampler stuffs cotton in his ears: “I am not working in ignorance
You can deny me if you want, you have every excuse,
But it is I who am the Master of this Work.
And when through my Passion you reach Perfection,
You will never be done praising my name.”
