Challenging the Mind’s Fundamental Assumptions

The non-dual understanding often exposes our fundamental assumptions or core beliefs about life and reality. A young man who is struggling to come to terms with this says it feels like his mind is being attacked and asks Rupert to comment.

Rupert says: ‘I don’t want you to feel attacked, but it’s good that you feel the intensity of it – it means that this understanding is being effective. It is not exposing your assumptions and dissolving them gradually, but confronting them head-on.

‘And that’s good at your age. Don’t live the rest of your life based on the assumption of separation. Found your life on the understanding of unity, and live a life that is consistent with that – in all your relationships, work and everything else you do.’