Rupert Spira - The Transparency of Things
An ongoing exploration of the inherent peace of simply being.
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Naked Being (opens the original)
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Your being is always shining. It does not need to be achieved or acquired or understood. Thinking and perceiving are what you do; being is what you are, and it never undergoes any change.It is natural to feel that meditation is something that takes place from time to time, between the normal activities of the waking state. But in time there is a gradual reversal of this perspective, and you understand and feel that your natural condition is simply being, or being aware, and the waking state is s
The Dream and the Search (opens the original)
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The Peace Beneath the Part We Play (opens the original)
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Everything you experience, from the sounds around you to your most intimate thoughts and feelings, stands in the foreground of experience. The fact of being aware, and its inherent peace, lies in the background, so continuously present that it is easily overlooked in favour of whatever appears within it.Notice that being aware accompanies all experience.We are normally so focused on the content of our experience – thoughts, images, feelings and so on – that we overlook the fact of being aware. I
The Impulse to Seek (opens the original)
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The impulse to seek runs deeper than any object could satisfy, because the Great Search is predicated on the presumption of separation. It can never be fulfilled. It can only be undermined.Ask yourself: is there anything that is preventing you from being completely at peace and fulfilled now? Do not just search in your mind for something that may be preventing you, but go deeply into your experience. Is there anything at a deeper level, some energetic impulse of seeking, longing, desiring, resis
The Taste of Eternity (opens the original)
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