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Rupert Spira shows common basis for all Teachings & language

Rupert Spira

If you take away all of Christianity and mysticism from Christian mysticism you’ll have Rupert’s teaching. If you take Advaita and Vedanta out of Advaita Vedanta you’ll have what Rupert is teaching. If you take Tibet and Buddhism out of Tibetan Buddhism you’ll have what Rupert is trying to teach. Rupert does a stunning job with language deviation showing how yes you can use one expression temporarily and qualify it in order to make a certain point and then clarify later what it was and where you were going with it so that you can make your real point while Jim and Tony are kind a locked into very temporary language.

While all of this is high praise for Rupert that doesn’t by itself prove that Rupert’s teaching is better than Tony’s and Jim’s.

Are you really aware? -RSpira

Rupert Spira

Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. All people share the experience of being aware, but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. Most people’s lives consist of a flow of thoughts, images, ideas, feelings, sensations, sights, sounds, and so on. Very few people ask, ‘What is it that knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?’
The knowing of our being – or rather, awareness’s knowing of its own being – is our primary, fundamental and most intimate experience. It is in this experience that the peace, happiness and love for which all people long reside. The happiness we have sought so long outside of ourselves, in situations, objects and relationships, turns out to be always present and available in the simple knowing of our own being as it truly is.
The knowing of our own being shines in each of us as the experience ‘I am’ or ‘I am aware’, or simply the knowledge ‘I’. This obvious, familiar and intimate experience has no objective qualities and is, therefore, overlooked or ignored by the majority of people. This overlooking of our own being is the ultimate cause of unhappiness.

Rupert Spira

Quit looking for enlightenment experience -RSpira

Rupert Spira, Simon Bartholomé

“When the Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki was once asked why he never referred to his enlightenment experience, his wife, who was sitting in the back of the hall, stood up and said, ‘Because he never had one!’ The recognition of our true nature is not an exotic experience. Indeed, it is not an experience at all.
In this recognition, our essential, irreducible, self-aware being simply loses its apparent limitations and its reality stands revealed: open, transparent, luminous, indestructible, unborn and undying.”

~ Rupert Spira
(‘Being aware of being aware’)