What Am I in the Absence of Thought and Perception?

Описание: What am I without my thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions? What remains when the content of experience we normally identify with is removed?

Rupert says: ‘Everything you know is an experience. You say, “I know my thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions.” If you take away your thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions, all that remains is “I know”, or pure knowing, or consciousness. What remains when all the content of experience comes to an end is just the presence of awareness.

‘The presence of awareness is not itself an experience – it’s that which knows all experience. It’s that which enables all experience to be but is not itself an experience. You can’t know it as an object in the same way that you know your thoughts and feelings. You can only be that knowingly.’

*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Mandali, 5–12 April 2025. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

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Timestamps:

0:00 What Am I Without Experience?
0:52 Knowing
3:08 Self-Recognition
5:08 Objectifying Awareness
6:18 You Are That

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