How Do I Move from Understanding to Knowing?
How can the intellectual grasp of non-dual concepts deepen into genuine conviction and lived experience?
Rupert says: ‘The non-dual understanding can be very simply expressed in one sentence: peace and happiness are the nature of your being, and you share your being with everyone and everything. The first part refers to your inner experience, the second part to your outer experience.
‘Go to your being, go to the simple experience of being and taste it. Your being is always available to you. Whenever you go there, it will always have the same qualities – peace, quiet, absence of sorrow, rock solid, strong. The practice is just going there more and more often. . . . Life can still be very challenging, but your challenging circumstances lose that capacity to take you away from your self and your innate peace.’
*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats in Norway, 22–25 May 2025. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:
Video Summary
AI GeneratedA seeker asks how to move from an intellectual understanding of non-duality to a lived experience of conviction. The guide explains that non-duality is the realization that peace and happiness are the nature of one's being, and that this being is shared with all existence. Through a guided exercise, the seeker discovers that their innate essence is always peaceful and unchanging.