Because 'I am' is real the mind wants to go there. However, because it is not objective, the mind cannot.

Is there a particular question or practice that ultimately worked to end this illusion for you or is it like the other non-dualists say and one just waits for grace to alight while walking or shopping!

What is your motivation to create your art work?What is your motivation to create your art work?

Why do spiritual masters use the term Love to denote the Absolute?

I feel that omniscience is realized as Consciousness but have not been able to achieve this. Is this because I'm still trapped in the mind-body world? If so, what can be done to move beyond into that omniscient state, the true nature of All?

Are my friends not there when I'm not there? Is anything there when I'm not there?

I'd appreciate your view on the materialist assertion, now made popular by Dawkins et al., that awareness is an epiphenomenon of brain processes.

Am I right in thinking that there is no point in planning any part of life, just simply give up and see what happens?  

Krishnamurti is not saying you "may" be the world, he said you "are" the world. Where is his certainty coming from?

Do you have a comment about finally resting in lasting Happiness?

I am still wanting to understand why there appears to be a relationship (not identity) with a particular body mind, Greg.

I'm sure you're giving a different sense to the word "Knowing" and I'd be very grateful if you could explain it to me.

What knowledge gives us knowledge of Ultimate Reality?

What is the best response when faced with another's intense suffering?

To be honest, I can't really fathom what this is, or what I am. It just wont collapse down into something I can look at, and I have tried and tried. Just when I think I've got it, It slips through my fingers.

It appears that there is a brand new conciousness that comes with each new creature, based on the fact that I don't remember anything before I was born.

How do I or can you provide me with techniques or direct experiences to feel or witness the Beingness 'I am?'

Can we remain 24 hours as Consciousness directly or is it necessary for the mind to perform some spiritual devotion?

What is the definition of 'direct-experience?' How can I be certain that direct-experience is the only criteria for investigation?

In 'The Timeless Place' you state that the situation will respond to the situation. Is this yet another area where we once believed that the separate entity had control but in reality has none?

How do we, as spiritual seekers, avoid the tragic pitfall of addiction?

Is it possible to take pain for granted the same way other bodily sensations and thoughts can be taken for granted when they appear?

When you refer to the totality, is this totality private or is it shared?

Is it not the case that Consciousness requires a body/mind apparatus in order to become a knower/perceiver?

I do not, under any circumstance, wish to risk hurting my wife or our relationship by my interest in spiritual fulfillment.

How do we account for what seems like unthinkable human actions such as rape, murder, abuse, child molestation, slavery, etc.?

I feel like I am going around in circles trying to find out the source of the "I-Thought" which Ramana says is the self.

Will reactivity will change over time and die down to silence?

We assume that Awareness experiences itself through only one mind. Is this only how our mind interprets/filters our experience?

I sort of understand at times that the emptiness is awareness and that is who I am. Should I be holding on to that emptiness?

What appears or is born when the body appears and what dies or disappears when the body dies?

Is there no distinction between "Absolute Awareness" and Consciousness that comes with the body and merges with "Absolute Awareness" when the body dies?

Does one eventually, on fully realizing that he is Awareness and Awareness alone, eventually shift perspective entirely?

The sense we have that Consciousness is located as or in the body is a result of Consciousness and the cluster of sensations we call the body.

There is this knowing and still a question.

What is meant by 'the world is within you?'

How do I just let go and be?

Are you saying that phenomenal appearance has reality?

From an absolutist viewpoint, the truth of what we are can never be other than what we are.

I’m aware that the search itself is the thing blocking understanding.

I'm struggling with the conflict between me as the 'doer' vs. the non-doer.

Consciousness only sees only itself. Right? 

What is the experience of pure Consciousness?

As long as Consciousness-as-a-human-being appears in Consciousness, how is Consciousness ever without an object?

Is it possible to penetrate this mystery?

How can my feeling match the understanding that I have?

Could you tell me something about courage and timidity?

Could the reading of your book have triggered this deep fear?

Why doesn't Conciousness have a mechanism to remember its experience during deep sleep?

Is there a moment called awakening?

Why do some kinds of thought happen to 'my' body-mind but not others?

You said our experience is made out of the Knowingness. But the other hand, we can see the experience comes and goes. Is there anything contradictory here?

If I take a deeper look and ask if there are really two things there or just one substance, I find that there is only 'Knowingness' there and no other thing. The 'Knowingness' knows itself. Is my understanding correct?

'How'  does one get the feeling that a table in front of the body is made out of the knowing?

The experience here, now, is that a sentence will start, and then end in the middle.

What connection does the clearing of unconscious, limiting beliefs have with awakening and self-realization?

Is the complete dissolution of the self contraction an actual possibility, or is it just another thought?

Consciousness here is not experiencing what Consciousness where you are is experiencing.

Would you please point out the most common fallacies/beliefs that seekers have.

In what sense is the world considered to be an illusion?

So to me it was like ego switched places with being. Is that what I have been aiming for?

In day to day living the I is still very much present and indeed mischievous.

Realizing myself as Consciousness is blocked by my belief that I am this body.

When do objects become solid?

If everything is one, what is wrong with causing harm or enjoying life's pleasures?

We project the world we perceive but what about the other minds that enter our projected world?

Could you please explain why Consciousness is not the product of the brain and why Consciousness is not local.

I am still feeling confused about "taking my stand as Awareness" and welcoming and letting whatever arises be as it is.

I wonder why Consciousness arises as illusion?

I just want to love everyone and everything, a silent love without any words.....

What is troubling is that I have found two distinct attitudes regarding the nature of this blankness.

Is that It?! What a feeling, so flat, so ordinary and so simple.

I still experience the pain and depression and suffer tremendously no matter what 'I do.'

There is something very deep inside of me that still wants to hold on....and the feeling that I get when I go to that deep place is fear....that I will not exist anymore. How can I overcome this fear? How can I believe what I know?

Do the apparently individual groupings of cognizing Awareness (which we think of as 'I') reappear or do you think each is only temporary and totally insignificant?

What connection, if any, does the clearing of unconscious, limiting beliefs have with awakening and self-realization?

Why do I  have this powerful yearning, this ache, to merge deeply and completely with a woman?

Does true awakening leave no doubts? How can anything change that would not ever be able to be put down to yet another experience or a function of mind?

I can say from memory that there a constriction or cramp can drop away leaving a freedom which is 'being what is happening.' And I yearn to live like that all the time. If you could help me tease that apart I would be indebted to you.

As no individual entity whatsoever exists to be reborn, then death would mean the same final release for all pseudo-individuals whether 'liberated in this life' ["enlightened"] or not?

Do you think that "love" has any reality outside of the conceptual arena?

It's very disheartening to find oneself in the middle of old arguments instead of the more Conscious, clear state that I'm getting used to.  I wonder how much Un-Consciousness is needed to function in our everyday lives?

Will you comment on Us All "realizing" as one Knowing Presence,' e.g. a commonly-sensed-conscious-Self and/or how humanity as a whole can see its self: pragmatically/actually awakening to being One, No One and Many?

If thoughts are mere firing of neurons happening based on past experience, does that mean we are all prophets to a point?

Is this perhaps another way of saying, that when living in of from our pure natural state, there is no point of of view being taken?

Is there anything I can do that would actually stop this apparent self from arising or be aware of it more, see it for what it is while it is occuring and not be swept along with it?

As much as I enjoy the exchange with others on the path, all too often it turns from honest self-inquiry into a battlefield of opinions. Would you comment?

Could you say something about the knowledge of non dual teachings verses the "seeing" or actualizing of it?

Would you agree that it is perhaps the development of the linguistic ability in humans and their use of language to communicate in a self-referential manner in relation to apparent others, that really lies at the heart of the contracted view?

Recently I have experienced frustration when trying to communicate this single thought, that it is only our perception which changes.  Clearly there is some error in my thinking and I would appreciate how I may clarify this.

Is Presence just a big data bank, or does it have a purpose/plan for all this manifestation?  

Will you please explain how memory works? 

I must be misunderstanding something: I realize that I have set-up a new separate entity -- the witness -- "behind" my experience. I acknowledge this, but that's where I seem to be stuck.

I realize that my body is an object in consciousness, but if the body is always part of my experience, it seems reasonable to say its a part of me?

You are that which is already realized and never not realized. Why does this simple message not hit home?

When we use words like "illusion, imaginings and unreal" to express the material world, mind and body as juxtaposed to the One of nondual realization, are these words not clumsy and lazy semantics?

However the peace, silence, simply recedes in the background and a kind of bi-functioning occurs in the being....like a surface being attending to functional matters and the background abiding in stillness...one lives a dual life for the time being.

My question is about controlling thoughts.  I recognize that thoughts simply appear in our minds, we don't create them.  But I do feel that I have choices about following them or not, with what I do with them once there here. 

This "Consciousness" is only verbalizabled as "Consciousness" only as long as a being is situated who can observe it and name it. To Itself, so to speak, there isn't any naming, because no other being to give it a name. Would you agree with me on this point?

Could you explain what is meant by 'direct or immediate perception?'

What advice do you give for those "who "backslide," as all do, and have you found your experience to also be subject to "backsliding"?

You say that it is Consciousness that connects thoughts so why did you write that "it is only a thought which connects an apparent string of thoughts together."?

It is like all the other thoughts are there just to escort this "main 'I' thought". It is like if we can be aware of this "special thought", all the rest collapse!

How do you see the uprooting or exposing of these personal blind spots that seem to block the release into the natural openness of Being?  Do you advocate a kind of teacher/student pointing out one-on-one that could lead to this type of release?

I can see how the world independent of perception is never experienced, but it's effects are, so isn't that evidence of its existence?

How can anyone say that thoughts have no connection to each other?

Since there is no entity independent of Consciousness where can illness reside?

Where do memories, beliefs, fears, and desires remain when I am in deep sleep?

I would like to ask you to expand upon the words, transparent and luminous, that you use a lot, both here and in your book, which I feel reflect a greater depth of understanding and Presence. 

Why is there this evolution? Why doesn't consciousness just 'sit back' and enjoy itself?

My question is on the ground of practical level that we can immediately FEEL we are everything. I remember that Krishnamurti says 'You are the world and the world is you'.

I don't want to dismiss the possibility of something simply because I don't experience it.  I'm not conscious in deep sleep.  So...does existence stop when I'm not conscious?

Nisargadatta said: "For you, you appear in the world. For me, the world appears in me." This is one of those statements that, if one "gets" it, it is the end of story. There is nothing further to get.

What is the approach you suggest for releasing the quite complex network of sensations in the body that are crying out that "I am separate"?

Is "space" just as much of an illusion as "time"?  They seem to be different, in that space seems to be a matter of actual perception, whereas time is not actually perceived, only thought.

When I look for 'I', the main thing is that I don't find it....

Perhaps you'd agree, then, that the "timeless interval between" you pointed to, is thus all that actually is?

Consciousness is already everything it could ever be. It is one seamless homogenous substance that can never be depleted, added to, changed or moved.....it gains or looses nothing from the entire human adventure.

How come just knowing this is not enough and it takes so long?

Our self is not known by anything other than its own self.

This recognition of our own Being is not the result of a process in the mind. It is its own cause, so to speak. It is not caused by anything outside of itself.

Is there any usefulness of familiarizing myself with the patterns and reactions of my mind?

Which self is being enquired into here? It seems to me that there are layers of self, the fake self and real self and as the enquiry goes deeper into the one, it dissolves, allowing the other one, reality, to come into the light.

The release of the sense of a centre is not so much of an event as a release of any hope or expectation or need for such an event taking place.

Pretending to be a small separate self and then forgetting it is playing a game seems an odd thing for pure Awareness to do. Why should it do this with all the suffering entailed?

Would it not be the case that the more one believes or feels there is something positive to be gained from the teachings, the more one has to take a position as an entity capable of receiving and benefiting from teachings?

So much of self-enquiry seems to turn on space and quiet reflection. But what about when the emotion's kicking in bigtime? Is it business as usual? "Who's suffering?" "Who's asking the question?"

My experience is that I have absolutely no say over such events. No matter what I read, or hear, or do or not do, such a happening or non happening happens spontaneously.

I am intrigued by this topic about the connection between suffering and the belief in a "me", and whether in the absence of belief in "me", suffering perhaps recedes.

Isn't irritation an expression of Grace?  How could it not be?

If understanding leads to the absence of these emotional ups and downs,
including sorrow over the loss of a loved one, regret when one inadvertently breaks a promise, irritation when another does something disagreeable, it seems -- to this limited mind -- unnatural.

Does this mean that all the shapes that Conciousness takes continue 'for
ever', with the consequence that all past events are present ('happening') right now?

What is the difference between deep sleep and death?

If we don't chose our thoughts, then we don't chose our actions, so who effects change or takes a stand as Awareness?

In exploring our direct experience, I often wonder how much we can 
trust it.

When you say help from a teacher, do you mean going and being with a teacher? 

I had an "awakening" about two years ago, fueled by kundalini...I have yet to see any non-dual teacher discuss kundalini.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a matter of grace, and there is nothing outside of that that can affect a thing in regards to awakening.

I am noticing now that there seems to be an egoic backlash happening since that "seeing" happened.  Is that possible?

Somehow this intellectual understanding (or whatever I should call it) has to become real at the level of the body and the world or what's the use, right?

Is this what you mean when you suggest we stand as awareness....That a person repeatedly attends to the sense of ‘I am’ or being?

I have a problem in the understanding and the difference between Nisargadattas' and Rupert's explanation of consciousness.

Last night I was looking for the "I".  What was seen for the first time is that the "I" is not local, not connected to my body....There was no huge feeling of love, no huge feeling of peace, but there did seem to be more freedom not being confined to the body...

If this process and awareness is  complete, one would not have to open the door to go through it........

Now speak, if you will, about the experience of a door........As the experience of the door and the experiencer are one whole,...why the solidity that causes the need to open the door to walk to it's other side?

Why that Rupert-Consciousness shining through the node of sensations which can be called Rupert-Body does not enjoy the Freedom to enter ramesam-body and know Ramesam-mind?

I would like to know whether you consider achieving high levels of concentration necessary for enlightenment. 

Thank you, Rupert, for freeing me from the feeling that I failed class.......

How do you respond to the idea that there are many ways of 'falling' into the knowingness of Consciousness?

Does Consciousness Forget Itself?

Is my following understanding correct? Like a movie film run through a projector gives the illusion of solidity and movement on a movie screen, but actually is a series of "stills," so is the world actually a fast moving series of "stills" appearing solid and continuous but can be seen through as a transparency.

It seems to me that you 'explain' things mostly from the standpoint of the Absolute without giving due attention to the relative.......

How are the ideas of Karma, Kalpas and Evolution reconciled with Non-duality?

 I can tell you that I have no certainty about anything....

I'm really fascinated by the discovery, that (in my direct experience) everything is made out of "sensing", as you put it - that there aren't any objects, only experience. 

Is what a man is....a matter of continual natural refinement?

I am seeking some clarification on the view and understanding of this so called awakening process, sudden or gradual that is being described here.

I still don't see in direct experience how Consciousness can know itself in deep dreamless sleep.

If all of life is a mental construct, a waking dream, what would it be like to awaken? Who awakens? Awaken to what?

Would you say that in deep sleep Consciousness knows itself?

Being the perceived, how can other people be having their own private, personal perceptions? Isn't there just the one Perceiver:  Consciousness?

On page 57 of your book you refer to the traditional Vedic teachings as sometimes emphasizing the veiling power of appearances that obscure the background of consciousness, and that in the Tantric approach the very same appearances are understood to reveal and express the background itself. Is there any light you can shed on this? 

I wanted to ask about an experience of many who are newly awakened where there is a falling away of a need for social contact.

Please clarify... the necessity to embody the understanding...that is to say to daily practice tantric Kasmir yoga." 

Would you say that there is something that knows the coming and going of Consciousness, or would you say no, that there is nothing outside Consciousness?

I had the strange impression reading your book that you were saying that in a sense all this mental understanding you developped was the first step before a complete body exploration...

Are body pratices a continuation of the search and thus a risk of the reenforcement of the sense of me?

It makes such perfect sense and is so obvious.  How can it be so elusive at the same time?

In your book you say that Consciousness chooses to forget itself through seeking, etc...but does Consciousness really choose anything?

The feeling of a 'me' cannot exist without any'thing' that is 'not me' for comparison - yes?

You comment that Awareness or Consciousness is simply observing the various arisings...as though there are two things:  one called Awareness or Consciousness and the other called arisings. Why would you posit such a dualistic notion in an effort to share the wisdom of non-dual experience?

What I fail to understand is WHY we have the 'I-thought' or the concept of self?

Does Awareness continue during deep sleep?

How would you define in a quick simple statement, the core essence of your teachings and the way to get there?

One thing I wanted to ask about is your answer to a question about the part feelings play.

Q. I understood the logic you have used to explain the Onness of "Consciousness" in which everything arises....

Q. On p.99 of The Transparency Of Things, you say "Our experience is one of a stream of appearances in Consciousness......

Q. I especially like your “starting point” of only trusting ones actual experience and refraining from trusting the manifold underlying concepts that often go along with it.....

Q. When my attention is pointed to the paper on which the words are written then I become aware of it, where I was not before....

Q. How can I test to see if Awareness isn’t just some white noise or something manufactured by the brain?

Q. I still have trouble seeing that Consciousness or Awareness and those objects which appear to it (to me) are one and the same! What am I missing?

Q. Is there anything that can be done towards the realisation of the true nature of experience?