Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 11–18 April 2026

Why It Matters

The talk offers a paradigm for personal and professional transformation, suggesting that recognizing our innate wholeness can enhance decision‑making, resilience, and purpose‑driven leadership.

Key Takeaways

• Reality is a single infinite consciousness veiled as multiplicity.
• Manifestation arises from love, not ignorance, and incurs a self‑forgetting.
• Perception refracts the infinite, creating the illusion of separate senses.
• Desire is the gravitational pull returning the finite mind to wholeness.
• The pathless path invites abiding as the true self, beyond practice.

Summary

The retreat addressed the fundamental nature of reality, proposing that all existence is a single infinite consciousness that appears as a multiplicity of forms. The speaker framed this veiling as a voluntary act of love, not a mistake, and described how manifestation emerges when the infinite consents to become finite.

Key insights included the idea that perception acts as a prism, refracting the one into the five senses, and that desire functions as a gravitational pull drawing the contracted self back toward wholeness. The talk emphasized that longing is not a flaw but the energy that signals the return to our original, indivisible state.

Memorable quotes such as “When you come to the one that gathers all things into itself, there you must stay” and the assertion that “I am” expresses the absolute truth underscored the message that the ultimate teaching is simply abiding as the self that already is.

For participants, the implication is a shift from seeking external solutions toward recognizing the inherent completeness of their being, a perspective that can inform personal development, leadership clarity, and organizational culture by grounding actions in an awareness of intrinsic wholeness.

Original Description

For those of us who love to dive deeply into the heart of the non-dual understanding, retreats offer an unprecedented opportunity: seven days with Rupert and friends, nestled in a beautiful location in nature, where we steep together in the peace of our true nature. Retreats gather us in the heart of being, where we spend our days in self-abidance, friendship and creativity.

Each day features three guided meditations in which we rest in being, as being, as well as a dialogue in which we discuss the non-dual understanding.

Whether you seek peace, happiness, truth, love or freedom – or if you would simply like to reunite with old friends – retreats provide the priceless opportunity to taste your true nature in an atmosphere of kindness and beauty. The people you meet on retreat will quickly become your non-dual family, so please join us as we gather in the spirit of friendship to celebrate the unity of being.

Livestream

Livestream participants have streaming access to all meetings during the retreat and will be able to view recordings from previous sessions from the livestream page; these will be streamable and viewable for 30-days from session date. This way, you can easily catch up on any missed sessions or listen again to take the understanding a little deeper. There will be a special discussion board for the livestream attendees where the streaming link will be posted ahead of the first session and will provide a place for everyone to communicate and share in the teaching.