A woman says she had an awakening experience but the intense bliss she felt disappeared soon afterwards. How can the state of mind experienced after a glimpse of your true nature simply fade away?

Rupert says that was just a heightened state of mind. It was not the recognition of your true nature. Your true nature is not a state that comes and goes. It's true that sometimes this recognition will have a very profound impact on the mind and the body but that would be the byproduct of this transparent recognition of your true nature.

The recognition of your true nature is much simpler and quieter. It's just a recognition of the presence of awareness that lies continually present in the background of all experience. You just come back to the fact of being or being aware. That's it. There’s nothing exotic about it. In a way, it's safest if it is as quiet as that because then you can never turn around and claim some marvellous enlightenment experience.

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Timestamps:

​​0:00 Awakening Experience
0:54 Felt Bliss Then Lost It
1:13 Your True Nature Is Not A State
2:14 Does Enlightenment Affect Your Body?
3:00 You Could Go There Now.
3:48 How Awakening Affects Your Mind
4:52 Being At Peace For No Reason.
5:50 Eckhart Tolle
6:30 Shinryo Suzuki
6:46 Enlightenment Is Not An Experience
7:34 Defining ‘experience’
7:40 Being Is Not Exotic
9:34 The Awareness Of Being
9:47 The Quietest Recognition There Is
10:15 Peak Experiences

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