Lucille Rupert Quotes

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There are two types of desires; those that arise out of misery and those that rise out

of happiness. Those that rise out of misery promise to lead us to happiness. They

are not celebratory but compensatory; they want to hide the void or absence of god

in our heart, to ll up the void in our heart with an object.

You must have the rm conviction that ‘I am not the body. The thought ‘I am the

body is the deceptive device that ma!es us desire the world as though it were real.

Thus we believe that we are entrapped in this powerful snare of bondage.

"verything has arisen with the ‘I am the body idea, now focus your attention on the

idea ‘I am not the body and hold on rmly to it and everything will disappear.

#s long as you have the feeling ‘I am the body you are a$ected by the

conse%uences of the actions you perform and you have merit and demerit. &ut

when you !now that ‘I am not the body where is the %uestion of doing'

(aving yourself rmly established in the idea ‘I am not the body, be still and do not

pay attention to anything at all. Then, simply through your profound attention to

‘being )‘I am*, you become the reality, the unbounded space of consciousness.

The idea ‘I am the body leads to the e+ternal scattering of the mind, while the idea

‘I am not the body will concentrate the mind inwardly and merge it with the

everlasting light of consciousness.

ather than remaining still as being-consciousness )‘I am* why do you, through the

deceitful idea ‘I am the body, sprout forth as ‘I and su$er unnecessarily'

hat is it that ma!es me feel li!e I am limited and located'

hat is it that ma!es me thin! that I am this amorphous tingling cluster of

vibrations that I e+perience as my body' It/s always been clear that I e+perience

this amorphous cluster that is my body I0 consciousness, not that consciousness is

inside the body.



This tingling sensation behind the eyes that seems to be me is no di$erent than the

blue s!y visual perception or the sound of tra1c are all made of that same stu$,

!nowing.

hat is that you are, that aware presence' If I was to as! you, for instance, turn

your attention towards your thoughts, ta!e a thought now, any thought, what

should we have for dinner, just watch the thought 2oat by. Its very easy to watch

that thought, its li!e watching a bird, you just watch it. If I was to suggest to you, to

turn your attention towards the tingling sensation of the soles of your feet. You go

straight there, very easy. hat is the sound of the birds' You go straight there. 0ow

what if I were to as! you, turn your attention to whatever it is that is aware of your

thoughts, your feelings, your sensations and your perceptions, where do you go'

If you go to your heart area, you nd a sensation or a feeling, but something in you

!nows that sensation, is aware of that sensation. If you try to nd that one, you

cant nd it. hy' &ecause its not an object, its not a thought, its not a feeling,

its not a sensation3 its just made out of pure empty awareness. "mpty because its

not made of an object. Its li!e its transparent, its empty, its made out of pure

!nowing, pure awareness. If you as! yourself, is there a limit that awareness'

...It doesnt change because only an object could change. &ut this is just, this I, thisessential self, your being, is just made out of empty awareness. Its the same I, its

not growing older, its not moving or changing and it doesnt disappear. Youve

never had nor could you have the e+perience of this I disappearing. It wasnt born.

Its not evolving, its not going to die. Yes, the mind appears and disappears. The

body appears and disappears. &ut you, the essential you, is without limits and ever

present. ithout limit means innite, not nite and ever present means eternal,

eternally now. That is the great discovery to ma!e, that what I am is not a cluster of

thoughts, feelings and sensations that was born with the particular time and place,

that is moving, evolving, growing old and is one day going to disappear. This what

we essentially are3 this ever present, luminous, empty, transparent awareness

which is intimately one with all appearances, just li!e the screen is intimately one

with the image that appears on it but at the same time absolutely free, the screen is

not stained by the movie. You are not stained or hurt or harmed by any thought, by

any activity, by anything, life cant hurt you. You are this pristine, indestructible,

ever present, innite awareness which is intimately one, the sounds for instance, all

we !now of the sound is the e+perience of hearing. #ll we !now of sound is hearing.



hat is it that ma!es me feel li!e I am limited and located'

hat is it that ma!es me thin! that I am this amorphous tingling cluster ofvibrations that I e+perience as my body' It/s always been clear that I e+perience

this amorphous cluster that is my body I0 consciousness, not that consciousness is

inside the body.

This tingling sensation behind the eyes that seems to be me is no di$erent than the

blue s!y visual perception or the sound of tra1c are all made of that same stu$,

!nowing.

e have the direct e+perience on a regular e+perience that I remain, but the body

comes and goes, and also we e+perience times when the mind is not present; no

thoughts or mental images, but consciousness remains.

It doesnt change because only an object could change. &ut this is just, this I, this

essential self, your being, is just made out of empty awareness. Its the same I, its

not growing older, its not moving or changing and it doesnt disappear. Youve

never had nor could you have the e+perience of this I disappearing. It wasnt born.

Its not evolving, its not going to die. Yes, the mind appears and disappears. The

body appears and disappears. &ut you, the essential you, is without limits and ever

present. ithout limit means innite, not nite and ever present means eternal,

eternally now.

That is the great discovery to ma!e, that what I am is not a cluster of thoughts,

feelings and sensations that was born in a particular time and place, that is moving,

evolving, growing old and is one day going to disappear. That what we essentially

are is this ever present, luminous, empty, transparent awareness which is intimately

one with all appearances, just li!e the screen is intimately one with the image that

appears on it but at the same time absolutely free, the screen is not stained by the

movie.

You are not stained or hurt or harmed by any thought, by any activity, by anything,

life cant hurt you. You are this pristine, indestructible, ever present, innite

awareness which is intimately one.



Thought says I !now the sound in here but the sound is over there. Thought divides

hearing into 4 parts - the self on the inside that hears and the sound on the outside

that is heard.

"verybody longs for that sense of incompleteness to be dissolved. hy do we go for

chocolates, cigarettes, drin!s, activities, the ne+t se+ual encounter, whatever it is,what are we loo!ing for' ere just longing to be complete again, to be whole again,

for the feeling of fragmentation, separation to dissolve and these objects, they

temporarily dissolve the sense of separation but they dont truly uproot the sense of

separation.

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