How to experience oneself as awareness? The answer to this question is sought by every spiritual seeker. Nonduality Teacher Rupert Spira explains how we can become more conscious and also how to stay as awareness, how to remain as awareness. He emphasizes the importance of focusing our attention on 'I am aware,' because it directs us to our true nature, which is infinite consciousness. Highly recommendable! ‘That's all your life consists of: 'I am aware of this, I am aware of that. Just stop with the 'I am aware … It's always this 'I am aware'. It pervades your entire experience. There is no experience without it! Instead of giving your attention to what you are aware of: I am aware of my thoughts, I am aware of my feelings, I am aware of the side of this room ... emphasize the 'I am aware!' Focus on the first part of your experience: the 'I am aware.’ Irrespective of what you are aware of.
It has never left you. You have never ceased to be this 'I am aware.’ Just give that experience, the experience of being aware, give it your attention. Instead of shining your attention on the object:
the thought, the feeling, ... Shine that awareness on the experience of being aware, in other words: on itself! And rest. Allow your attention to come back to itself, just to rest in itself.
That experience is peace itself! And as you abide as that more and more, your old identity, your old belief that this aware being that I essentially am is identical to a cluster of thoughts and feelings
will just gradually purify itself of all those thoughts and feelings.’
What you can learn from this video:
- how to deal with unconsciousness
- Rupert Spira’s approach to self enquiry
- how to be aware of awareness
- how to abide in awareness
- a nonduality teacher’s point of view on experiencing awareness
- how to move closer to spiritual enlightenment or spiritual awakening
- how to be aware of oneself
- what your nature beyond your thought-identity is
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Rupert Spira is a spiritual writer and teacher in the branch of Non Duality, exploring the nature of experience in his essays and texts. He has published a book (The Transparency of Things, Non Duality Press, 2008), and a few DVDs with interviews. He holds regular meetings and retreats in the UK, Europe and the US. (Source: Wikipedia)
Rupert Spira shares his views and experiences related to the Practice of Self Enquiry, Non-duality, Ceramics, Meditation, Advaita, Vedanta, Consciousness and Awareness.
'The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.'
'To believe that I, Awareness, share the limits and the destiny of the mind and body is like believing that the screen shares the limits and destiny of a character in a movie.'
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Perov - Harp Meditation
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