When it comes to the topic of becoming enlightened, is there a difference between humans and animals? And why do humans experience psychological suffering but animals don’t?

Rupert explains that it is not the body nor the finite mind that realises itself. Only consciousness can have the experience I am consciousness. And that experience — that knowledge is happiness. So true happiness cannot be known by an animal, or a human being. When you experience happiness, you don't experience it as a human being. Actually, in that moment, you cease to know yourself as a human being — you are knowing yourself as you essentially are.

And as far as we know animals don't have the belief of being separate — so they don't have the problems that human minds have. Suffering ends when the belief that we are separate is put to an end.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Can Animals Become Enlightened?
0:57 Know Your True Nature
1:13 Becoming Enlightened
1:24 Only Awareness Knows Awareness
1:56 Are Humans Aware?
2:40 Can The Mind Know Consciousness?
3:19 Can Humans Be Happy?
3:33 What Is Happiness?
4:29 Happiness Is Knowing Yourself
5:10 Being Your True Self
5:30 Who Is Aware?
6:12 Only Awareness Has Experience
6:28 What Limits Happiness?
7:02 Can Only Humans Awaken?
9:12 Why People Are So Unhappy
9:24 Why Are Animals And Humans Different?
10:07 The End Of Suffering
10:27 Limiting Beliefs
10:40 How Thought Causes Suffering
11:40 What Is Your True Self?
12:31 What Is A Person?
14:10 Animals And Psychological Fear
14:40 Why You Are Not At Peace

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