Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Is it possible to maintain the same depth of abiding in being we experience during meditation while simultaneously connecting with people in everyday interactions? Can we remain deeply grounded in our true nature when engaging in conversation with others or doing other things?
Rupert says: ‘In our meditation sessions, we turn our attention away from the content of experience and give it exclusively to being – abiding in that, as that. When we’re having a conversation with someone, we give our attention to the person we’re speaking to, and as a result our being seems to recede into the background. For most people, their being seems to disappear completely as if the entire content of their experience consists of the conversation.
‘In this approach, we continue to give our attention to our experience or to the person we’re talking to, but we remain in touch with our being – we feel it first in the background, but then it overflows into the foreground, and we find that, gradually over time, experience loses its capacity to obscure being, because being is not limited to and located in the body – it’s shared.’
*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at the Mandali retreat center in Italy, 5–12 April 2025. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:
▸ rupertspira.com/events
Timestamps:
0:00 Abiding in Being While Doing Other Things
0:44 Acting from Your True Self
1:46 Actions Informed by Being
2:36 Remaining in Touch with Being
4:08 Experience Loses Its Capacity to Obscure Being
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Is it possible to maintain the same depth of abiding in being we experience during meditation while simultaneously connecting with people in everyday interactions? Can we remain deeply grounded in our true nature when engaging in conversation with others or doing other things?
Rupert says: ‘In our meditation sessions, we turn our attention away from the content of experience and give it exclusively to being – abiding in that, as that. When we’re having a conversation with someone, we give our attention to the person we’re speaking to, and as a result our being seems to recede into the background. For most people, their being seems to disappear completely as if the entire content of their experience consists of the conversation.
‘In this approach, we continue to give our attention to our experience or to the person we’re talking to, but we remain in touch with our being – we feel it first in the background, but then it overflows into the foreground, and we find that, gradually over time, experience loses its capacity to obscure being, because being is not limited to and located in the body – it’s shared.’
*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at the Mandali retreat center in Italy, 5–12 April 2025. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:
▸ rupertspira.com/events
Timestamps:
0:00 Abiding in Being While Doing Other Things
0:44 Acting from Your True Self
1:46 Actions Informed by Being
2:36 Remaining in Touch with Being
4:08 Experience Loses Its Capacity to Obscure Being
––
ACCESS FULL VIDEO ARCHIVE
You can watch or listen to 1000s of hours of teachings, guided meditations and answers in Rupert's full video archive here:
▸ rupertspira.com/subscriptions
––
RETREATS (Weekend, 5-day, 7-day)
Rupert holds regular retreats, roughly once per month, either in-person and online. Many in-person retreats can also be attended from the comfort of your home via livestream.
ONLINE RETREAT SCHEDULE
▸ rupertspira.com/events/retreat-at-home
IN-PERSON RETREATS SCHEDULE (UK, EU and US) (Also Available to Join Online via Live Stream)
▸ rupertspira.com/events
––
WEEKLY WEBINARS (2 hours)
Rupert's webinars take place on Wednesday evenings, from 4pm UK time. In the first twenty to thirty minutes, Rupert leads a spontaneous meditation. The remaining time is open for attendees to discuss their questions with Rupert.
WEEKLY WEBINAR SCHEDULE
▸ rupertspira.com/events/webinar
––
BROWSE RUPERT’S BOOKS
▸ rupertspira.com/store
––
LISTEN TO RUPERT’S PODCAST
▸ iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rupert-spira-podcast
▸ Libsyn: rupertspira.libsyn.com
▸ Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6z1GNgC1js30g9RLSfBB4M
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JOIN RUPERT’S FACEBOOK GROUP
▸ facebook.com/groups/rupertspiracommunity
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SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS
▸ Website: rupertspira.com
▸ Instagram: instagram.com/rupertspira_
▸ Facebook: facebook.com/rupertspira
▸ Twitter: twitter.com/rupertspira
▸ Tiktok: tiktok.com/@rupertspira_
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FOLLOW RUPERT ON MEDIUM
medium.com/@rupert_spira
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SUBSCRIBE TO RUPERT’S YOUTUBE FOR NEW VIDEO ALERTS
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#rupertspira #nonduality #happiness #natureofreality #consciousness #awareness #meditation #guidedmeditation
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