Why Can’t I Find My Self?

How do you go about finding your self or getting back to simply being? A man says it is difficult because he feels he can’t find being. Why is that?

Rupert says: ‘Trying to find your being is like trying to see your eyes. We can only know something, like a thought, because we stand apart from it as the knower. That’s true of all experience apart from one – the knowing of being.

‘So our knowledge of our self, or our being, is a unique experience. When we say “I know my self”, the I that knows and the self that is known are the same. That is why you say, “I can’t find my self” – because you can’t find your self as an object. But although we never know our self as an object, we cannot say that we do not know our self. Awareness knows everything in subject-object relationship, apart from itself, which it knows just by being itself.’

*This video is from one of Rupert’s Online Weekend Retreats at Home, 5–7 January 2024. Retreats at Home provide the opportunity to explore the non-dual understanding from the privacy of your home, on your own or with friends. For more information on upcoming retreats go to:

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