A woman seeks clarity regarding the ideas that nothing ever happens and nothing exists. Are these statements true, and what are their implications?

Rupert says: ‘Yes, they are true and the two go together; if nothing exists, there’s no question of anything happening. Things seem to happen for the finite mind, but nothing ever happens for the one infinite reality. You get a taste of this when you fall asleep at night. It’s eleven o’clock. You fall asleep, have a long dream, and when you wake up, you look at your clock and it’s one minute past eleven. Did anything really happen?

‘Years ago, I had an elderly friend who was dying. I asked him what it was like looking back on his life. He said, “I look back, and it’s like a dream”. Previously, he thought that his life was substantial and that being was insubstantial, but now he felt that being was the one substantial element of his experience. Being touches everything, but nothing touches it. It is never tarnished or hurt, and it never ages or changes. It’s in this context that it is said that nothing ever happens.’

*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at The Vedanta, 11–18 November 2023. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

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Timestamps:

0:00 Nothing Exists
0:57 Things Only Seem to Happen
1:42 The Dream Analogy
3:04 Life Is a Dream
4:55 Nothing Ever Happens

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