Channel: Rupert Spira

Category: Education

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Description: How does understanding the nature of reality end our suffering? This amazing conversation between psychotherapist, philosopher and theologian Mark Vernon and Rupert Spira, takes you on a deep, fascinating and thought-provoking dive into how to end our suffering and find lasting peace and happiness. Through their discussion on time, space, thought, perception, desire, intuition, being, the ego, consciousness and the now or present moment, as well as their references to the wisdom of ancient philosophers, poets, religious texts, scientific theories, spiritual traditions and teachings of masters in many religions and tribal cultures, we see that both the essence of all religions (from Islam to Christianity to Judaism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism) and the study of our experience, reveals the same truth – that all is one. And the nature of this one infinite being is peace and happiness. In religious terminology we call this being God, and in non-religious language we often refer to it as consciousness, awareness or simply being. We also see that it is always 'now'. And it's always 'here'. We never experience 'then', we never experience 'there' – when we get to 'there' it is always here. The here and now are the hint in our waking state of the nature of reality. Our misunderstanding the nature of reality and seeing our self as separate from everyone and everything, rather knowing our self as this one infinite being is what leads to all our suffering. This non-dual (not two) understanding of the nature of reality is known as non-duality or advaita vedanta. 00:00 Introduction 04:04 Suffering and the way to end it 16:54 Death and overcoming the fear of it 23:33 How contemplating the nature of time and space heals 33:34 The nature of thought, perception and the objects of manifestation 38:18 Where happiness is found and misunderstanding its cause 42:07 Desire, love and the erotic in spirituality as the divine reality 58:35 The role of Imagination and intuition in cleansing the mind 1:02:47 The different regions of the mind and messengers of the divine 1:11:59 Life’s courageous journey into oneness –– UP-COMING ONLINE RETREAT ON ENLIGHTENMENT (February 18 - 20, 2022) Rupert's next Online Retreat is called the Way of Recognition, where we will explore numerous pathways back to our essential self to discover the peace and quiet joy that is our true nature. The guided meditations and discussions that take place at the event will unveil our essential nature from the content of experience, thereby changing the way we feel the body and perceive the world. This helps us to not only recognise the nature of our being but increasingly feel that we share our being with everyone and everything. Find out more here: rupertspira.com/event/2022-02-18-the-way-of-recognition-online-weekend-retreat-at-home –– ACCESS FULL VIDEO ARCHIVE You can watch or listen to 1000s of hours of teachings, guided meditations and answers in Rupert's full video archive here: ▸ rupertspira.com/subscriptions –– ONLINE RETREAT SCHEDULE ▸ rupertspira.com/events/retreat-at-home IN-PERSON RETREATS SCHEDULE ▸ UK rupertspira.com/event/location/united-kingdom ▸ US rupertspira.com/event/location/united-states ▸ ITALY rupertspira.com/event/location/italy –– WEEKLY WEBINAR SCHEDULE ▸ rupertspira.com/events/webinar –– FREE CONTENT, EVENTS & NEW RELEASES To be notified of free content, events (online and in-person), books and other new releases, please sign up to Rupert's free newsletter: rupertspira.com/free-newsletter –– BROWSE RUPERT’S BOOKS ▸ rupertspira.com/store –– LISTEN TO RUPERT’S PODCAST ▸ iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rupert-spira-podcast ▸ Libsyn: rupertspira.libsyn.com ▸ Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6z1GNgC1js30g9RLSfBB4M –– JOIN RUPERT’S FACEBOOK GROUP ▸ facebook.com/groups/Video… SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS ▸ Website: rupertspira.com ▸ Instagram: instagram.com/rupertspira_ ▸ Facebook: facebook.com/rupertspira ▸ Twitter: twitter.com/rupertspira –– SUBSCRIBE TO RUPERT’S YOUTUBE ▸ youtube.com/user/rupertspira?sub_confirmation=1 –– #rupertspira #nonduality #natureofreality #consciousness #happiness #awareness #williamblake #theology #philosophy