Category Archives: Rupert Spira

Free will & choiceless awareness -RSpira

Levels, Rupert Spira
“I CAN’T FIND ANYTHING IN MY EXPERIENCE THAT MIGHT LEGITIMATELY BE CALLED A/MY SEPARATE SELF.”
Rupert really is “there”!
When asked if he feels a separate self when he raises a finger or arm or when he has a conversation or anything at all he says no. I myself rjs would like to add that probably he means not anymore. In other words he has demonstrated that level where he no longer flips back-and-forth.
Rupert shares Jean Klein’s analogy of the separate self and the clown that comes in after the performance and takes a bow for something that he has not done!

Vedantic AND Tantric -RSpira

Heal Yourself, Rupert Spira
DISTANCE VS NON-DISTANCE: VEDANTIC VS TANTRIC APPROACHES TO EMOTIONS AND HEALING 13:05
We turn away from our objective experience of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, Whether pleasant or unpleasant and we turn in the opposite direction toward that with which object experience is known.

I am aware of my experience. Whether I am deeply depressed or ecstatically happy the I is exactly the same in both cases. That’s the 1st step to establish what I am. I am the presence of awareness independent of all experience. We go back again and again and again Until we not just understand but we establish in our experience Til we know and feel ourselves To be that 1. That recognition Is the recognition of what we essentially are. That recognition is not enough to put an end to the years and the layers Of feelings and indeed beliefs That we’ve accumulated over the years. Even after we’ve recognized what we are we need to go back again and again to our beliefs and feelings. We’ve been repeating them over the decades again and again until they are a well worn habit. Both the habit of thinking and the habit of feeling Is ever had a cated put a plant the moment we recognize our true nature! Having turned around and faced our habits and beliefs we have to turn back And face our experience. But we don’t face it again as our separate selves anymore we face it knowing who we really are. As awareness our feelings are completely welcome just as everything in this Room Is. The space in this Room does not have to negotiate With every person that comes into the Room and say I like you and I don’t like you. This space cannot negotiate with who were what is in it because the space is empty and it doesn’t judge or a opinions. The space in this Room cannot resist what’s in it even if we were to fight each other. It’s a benevolent indifference. Now we can invite our feelings to come back Because we welcome within us that is within our space of awareness We let these feelings soak. Now we can welcome feelings Rather than trying to get rid of them as we have been doing all our lives. The separate self is very clever in applying non-dual teachings To get rid of feelings but that’s fake Welcoming that’s welcoming something so that you can get rid of it. You say this to a feeling You must be able to answer yes to that question Because then you would know that there’s no trace in you With which to get rid of it. Look at it what is a feeling! For which you have absolutely no response Put the story that accompanies this suffering Aside because they’re not dealing with beliefs and feelings We are dealing with the espec’s of the feelings that is important When you next find yourself suffering with a sense of lack Don’t let your mind go into the story. Just go to The feeling and sensation of lakh . It may take some time . You turn towards it and you invite it Bring it closer and closer and closer Til you can honestly say I have no resent ment towards these feelings and what remains.

Rupert Spira

Consciousness/Presence/Awareness is like an ocean of water.

The waking state is like the waves on the surface of the ocean. The dream state is like the currents in the middle of the ocean. Deep sleep is like the stillness in the depths of the ocean.

But all there is to the surface, the currents and the depths is the water. It’s all a movement of water. All there is to experience is knowing, the activity of consciousness. The only real content or texture of any experience is the knowing of it.

Rupert Spira

Rupert vs Rupert re Consciousness -RSpira●

Rupert Spira
RUPERT V RUPERT: NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
E X C E L L E N T !!!
Sheldrake: Does your philosophy relate to Western idealism or not? SPIRA: Yes it goes all the way back to PARMENIDES who says there’s a single unchanging infinite reality from which everyone and everything derived their apparently independent existence. I think exactly the same way and if you were to ask me the nature of this independent reality I would say its consciousness. Spira was educated in the Vedantic Kashmir Shaivite tradition (Not science and Western philosophy). What we perceive as the physical universe is what the activity of that consciousness looks like from a localized prospective.
I reasoned that when we dream at night we dream of the world in our dream mind. We cannot directly from our mind. In order to dream we have to localize ourself and enter into our own imagination as a character in the dream from whose perspective the activity of the outside world appears as the outside world in our dream. This gives us a very good model for the ultimate dreamer in infinite consciousness whose activity is the universe (not an entity made out of matter).

Subject-object relationship = only an appearance -RSpira

Rupert Spira
It’s not possible to view the world directly from awareness’ perpective. Awareness Awareness needs the finite mind to know the world. It’s like It’s like being asleep at night and dreaming of something like a Caribbean beach. You don’t dream of this beach from the perspective of your finite mind wherever you are. Within the dream your mind has to simultaneously dream the Caribbean beach and dream you entering it. From this perspective your mind knows the inside of itself as the outside world. Your Your mind can’t go to the Caribbean beach directly. It has to have the dreamed character of yourself. Consciousness cannot view the world directly because consciousness is infinite and there is no Room in the infinite for the finite. If there was a little bit of the finite and the infinite the finite would displace the infinite and that would be impossible much like CS saying a speck of dust in the absolute would be tantamount to abject blindness or something like that. The big difference between our separate self dreaming and consciousness dreaming of us is that we can only have one dream at a time but consciousness can have innumerable dreams – in other words us – at 1 time. The subject object relationship are the tools with which consciousness manifests itself. We are the consciousness’ dream. The separate self is the tool for the consciousness to manifest itself within the dream. This This is so prevalent in so many myths such as Christianity’s God leaving itself and going into humanity. The price it pays is that it loses itself and SEEMS to become a temporary separate self. No there is this world that I have been cut off from my self or from my source and I long to go home. But this isn’t really true. That’s why all separate selves suffer the consideration is suffering. It’s temporary impermanent finite the suffering that says that I want to go back to who I really am. This This pain of wanting to go back is what dictates the behavior of all 7 billion of us. The difference between us here and the rest of the world is that we have failed or we have been failed so many times that we just simply want to go directly to our true selves without going through the process yet again. We We want the same thing as the rest of this 7 billion of us. We want our original self divested of all else. We We want consciousness which is another name for peace and happiness and self.

Self-knowledge, I, myself, key to happiness & peace w/o practice -RSpira

Rupert Spira
LIVE, INTERACTIVE WEBINAR WITH SPIRITUAL TEACHER RUPERT SPIRA, 40-YEAR NONDUALIST. HIS TEACHERS ARE KRISHNAMURTI, RUMI, RAMANA MAHARSHI, ROBERT ADAMS, JEAN KLEIN, *FRANCIS LUCILLE.
AWARENESS NOT ONLY LIES IN THE BACKGROUND OF, BUT ALSO PERVADES, ALL OF OUR EXPERIENCE.
It’s It’s not necessary to deny or repress or get rid of any experience. If we go deeply into the heart of any experience we find our true self there, peaceful. Awareness like the physical space in the Room in which you are sitting it’s always the same whether you were 10 years old or now.
AWARENESS = CONSCIOUSNESS = SELF
3 TERMS RUPERT USES INTERCHANGEABLY.
AWARENESS IS PRISTINE, PEACE, HAPPINESS, UN-RESISTED.
DON’T MAKE A PRACTICE OUT OF ANYTHING. IT’S TOO LATE FOR AWARENESS TO BE RESISTED: IT JUST IS.

Physical pain and emotional counterpart -RSpira

Rupert Spira
YES THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DEEP-SEATED, LONG TERM PHYSICAL PAIN AND OTHER MINOR PAINS. IT COULD BE A CHRONIC EMOTIONAL STATE WHICH YOU MAY NEED TO ALLEVIATE AS YOU DISCOVER WHAT’S BEHIND IT.

“In being aware of being aware, there is no room for a separate self. There is just eternal, infinite awareness, resting in and as its own inherently peaceful, unconditionally fulfilled being…knowing, being and loving itself alone.”

  • Rupert Spira, “Being Aware of Being Aware”