Category Archives: Rupert Spira
Acclimitising To our new understanding -RSpira
The tiger wasn’t really running after the villagers – it was on the screen. The screen represents consciousness and experience is the activity of consciousness – all thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving. The tiger veiled the screen in the 1st instance but after the manager ran out and told the villagers about it not being a real tiger coming after them they came back in and enjoyed the movie so the tiger had lost its power to veil reality. Consciousness itself conceals itself with its own activity. That’s Maya. All there is to experiencing is the knowing of it. At that stage experience loses its capacity to veil itself but instead shines with it. Experience becomes a revealing power instead of a concealing power. The only SUBSTANCE to experience is the presence of it and that is knowing. To investigate your true nature you go directly to your true nature and you’ll find it to be pure eternal whole perfect. That’s the culmination of the self inquiry process. And then you begin to allow that knowledge of yourself to permeate all realms. That’s Transfiguration. It’s the allowing this true self to permeate al your experience and then your experience becomes outshined by the light of your self. This is very very difficult and requires effort and maintenance. The separate self is the unnatural condition. It’s an acquired state and not your natural state. Being acquired requires constant effort and maintenance because we are so accustomed to making this effort that we no longer realized that we’re doing so because we think that it’s our default state but it isn’t. Therefore from the perspective of our separate self returning to our self requires effort. We’re not talking about going to some lofty place and then having to come back to reality we’re talking about a better way of dealing with the demands of everyday life. You should visit that lofty place seemingly that we went to more and more and more until you can acclimatize to it and it will become your new norm. All there is is infinite individual whole made out of pure consciousness. We need not only to understand this but to feel it and not only to feel it but to act in the world and relate with others in a way that is consistent with this infinite understanding. Now what we need to do is after meditation or an infilling like this we just had is to spend 5 minutes in silence to solidify everything and to start to prepare to go out into our everyday life and then the preparation gets us ready to for example go to the kitchen and take the inspiration with you and prepare what you need and keep that inspiration going and bring it into the living room and keep the inspiration going and going and going. RJS There is a TRANSITION period where our old way of thinking, acting, perceiving, etc, is infused with our new understanding. It takes a few years for this new understanding to release and percolate through all of our experience. Your experience is entirely intimate with the screen and yet it has no effect on it. (15+ min) You’ll have total intimacy and total freedom. BE RELENTLESS ABOUT ERODING ALL THE THOUGHTS AND DEMANDS INTENDED FOR THE SEPARATE SELF. Your thoughts will become an expression of who you really are and they will be liberated and wonderful.
The Direct Path to Peace and Happiness -RSpira
Self-inquiry videos -RSpira
What is our Self? -RSpira
Conversation with Rupert Spira. What Unseparated is All About -RSpira
THE SEEING AND THE SEEN ARE MADE OF THE SAME SUBSTANCE: CONSCIOUSNESS. CONSCIOUSNESS KNOWS A THING BY BEING A THING [Sat-Chit-Ananda]. WHEN CONSCIOUSNESS IS VEILED HAPPINESS IS VEILED.
NOW I’M AWARE OF … SINCE YOU MENTIONED IT AND BECAUSE I KNEW IT ALL ALONG
Not changing, but looking deeply at this experience….
Intimate science is consciousness -RSpira
“If we want to know the nature of the world, we have to know the nature of that with which the world is known. The ultimate science is not the science of physics; it is the science of Consciousness.
Our culture now finds itself in a similar position to that in which it found itself in the middle of the sixteenth century. When Copernicus presented his ideas about the heliocentric universe, he ushered in a new era of science that replaced the old religious worldview. Society had outgrown the forms it had created to accommodate itself.
We are now at a similar stage. Our society has outgrown the forms that conventional science created to accommodate itself, and the signs of this are to be found everywhere. The new science is the science of Consciousness. Sooner or later we have to have the courage to face that fact. We can no longer afford to ignore it.”
• Rupert Spira
Self-enquiry vs Self-abidance -RSpira
WHO OR WHAT AM I ? AWAY FROM OBJECTIVE CONTENT AND TOWARDS THE SOURCE.
SELF-ENQUIRY STARTS WITH A QUESTION OR INVESTIGATION: WHO OR WHAT AM I?
Once that question has been asked there is nothing more for the mind to do.
WE ASK THE QUESTION THEN WAIT FOR THE ANSWER. THAT WAITING IS SELF-ABIDANCE (SANSKRIT FOR ATMA VICHARA).
Ramana Maharshi called it sinking into awareness. Christian Mystics call it practicing the presence of God. It is realizing that inquiry doesn’t really mean asking a series of questions and thinking thinking thinking but rather asked the one question and then exercise self abidance where the true self is not a thing that you think about the true self is that which knows and sees rather than the so called person asking.
Rumi called this non-process process “flow down and down and down into ever-widening rings of being.”
Thoughts, feelings etc should no longer obscure your true nature -RSpira
Our precious being -RSpira
‘As mystics we rest in Being. As friends and lovers we share our Being. As artists we celebrate our Being. Aa scientists and philosophers we explore or investigate our Being. But what ever we do or wherever we go, we don’t allow our experience to eclipse our Being, our essential self-aware Being. Naked awareness.’
Rupert Spira