Rupert Spira - The Nature Of Consciousness & Time

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Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How to truly uncover lasting happiness can seem like a lofty or impossible goal. But somehow, Rupert Spira makes it seem not just possible, but as clear as glacier water. I’ve wanted him on the show for a long time now, and I’m excited to share this incredible conversation. We dig into non-duality, the nature of time, the beauty of simple awareness, and what all the great spiritual traditions of the world were pointing to. Rupert Spira is an English teacher of the "direct path", a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a notable English studio potter with work in public and private collections. Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality from an early age. By age 17 he was studying meditation and practicing a classic Indian method of spiritual inquiry called Advaita Vedanta. He has studied with Dr. Francis Roles, Shantananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya in, and is steeped in the wisdom of thinkers and mystics such as P. D. Ouspensky, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Rumi, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, and Robert Adams. In 1997, Francis Lucille trained Rupert in the Direct Path teachings of Atmanada Krishna Menon and the Tantric approach of Kashmir Shaivism, which he had received from his teacher, Jean Klein. Rupert regularly holds meetings and retreats worldwide, exploring non-dual teachings from a diverse array of sources: Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Hinduism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Sufism, and Zen. He is the author of 8 books, including The Transparency of Things – Contemplating the Nature of Experience, The Ashes of Love, The Nature of Consciousness and The Essence of Meditation. His latest book is titled. A Meditation On I Am. Connect with Rupert -Website: https://rupertspira.com/ -Latest book: https://rupertspira.com/store/a-meditation-on-i-am -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rupertspira Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And what is it that experiences our self?
0:15.1	Only our self.
0:17.0	There is only one substance in experience,
0:20.7	and it is pervaded by and made out of knowing our awareness.
0:27.1	In the classical language of non-duality, this is sometimes expressed in phrases such as awareness only knows itself.
0:35.1	But this may seem abstract.
0:37.4	It is simply an attempt to describe the
0:40.5	seamless intimacy of experience in which there is no room for a self, object, or other, or a world.
0:50.1	No room to step back from experience and find it happy or unhappy, right or wrong, good or bad.
0:57.8	No time in which to step out of the now into an imaginary past or into a future in which we may
1:04.8	become, evolve, or progress. No possibility of stepping out into the intimacy of love, into the relationship with another,
1:13.6	no possibility of knowing anything other than knowing, of being anything other than being,
1:20.5	a loving anything other than loving, no possibility of a thought arising,
1:26.8	which would attempt to frame the intimacy of experience in the
1:30.6	abstract forms of the mind no possibility for our self to become a self a fragment apart no
1:39.2	possibility for the world to jump outside and for the self to contract inside. No possibility for time,
1:50.0	distance, or space to appear. So those are the words of my guest today, Mr. Rupert Spira, who I have very much been looking forward to having on the show.
2:04.6	He is an English teacher of the quote, direct path, which is a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing.
2:12.4	He is a notable English studio potter as well with works in public and private collections.
2:19.8	Rupert was deeply interested in the nature of reality and consciousness from a very early age,
2:26.1	and by age 17, he was studying meditation and practicing a classic Indian method of
2:32.2	spiritual inquiry called Advaita Vedanta. He has studied with Dr. Francis
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