Rupert Spira(b. 1960)

Talk exploring how all experience is made of consciousness, using direct investigation rather than belief or philosophy.

Meditation app and podcast exploring mindfulness, consciousness, and non-dual awareness from a secular, science-informed perspective.

A concise 13th-century Sufi treatise on the unity of being, exploring the principle 'Whosoever knows their self, knows their Lord.' Translated by Cecilia Twinch, with commentary drawing on Ibn Arabi's tradition. Frequently referenced by Rupert Spira in his non-dual teachings.

Essays exploring the non-dual nature of experience, arguing that consciousness is the fundamental reality underlying all perception.

In A Meditation on I Am, spiritual teacher Rupert Spira offers beautiful and contemplative prose poetry to help readers reach an experiential understanding of their own essential being. Spira’s essential teachings shine through each passage, revealing how our mental and emotional patterns are not in

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 All objective experience is known. We are aware of our experience. Knowing or being aware is the continuous element in all changing knowledge and experience. It remains present throughout all changing experience, just as a screen remains present throughout all movies. #2 Knowing or being aware is the primary ingredient in all knowledge and experience. It is the background on which all knowledge and experience takes place. It is the medium within which all experience appears. It is the knowing element in all knowledge, and the experiencing element in all experience. #3 The experience of knowing or being aware is referred to as consciousness or awareness in many spiritual traditions. The words consciousness and awareness are often used to refer to the experience of knowing or being aware, but they should be understood to refer directly to the obvious, familiar, and non-objective experience of knowing or being aware that all beings share. #4 The experience of being aware is known as I. I am aware of the thought of my friend. I am aware of the memory of childhood. I am aware of the feeling of sorrow, loneliness, or shame. I am aware of the image of my home. I am aware of the sensation of pain or hunger. I am aware of the sight of my room or the sound of traffic.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The sense of being myself is our most ordinary, intimate, and familiar experience. It is the background of all experience, and it never leaves us. It is the ever-present factor in all changing experience. #2 Our sense of self is made up of two elements: our ever-present, unchanging being and the qualities it derives from our constantly changing experience, which seem to condition and limit it. Our being is naturally peaceful, and it is in this state of peace and happiness that we should aim. #3 When we allow our essential self to become mixed or identified with the qualities of experience, its natural condition of peace and happiness is veiled or obscured. We seem to become the feeling, and we lose our self in experience. However, we still have the experience of being myself even in the darkest feelings. #4 The separate self or ego is constantly in a state of lack, as it is constantly trying to defend itself from feeling vulnerable and incomplete. It is constantly seeking objects, substances, activities, states of mind, or relationships that will make it feel whole.

It's not always easy trying to figure out who you are in this ever-changing world.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Our self is the most important thing we can know for certain. We know our self through direct experience, and our self knows that it is present and aware through itself alone. It doesn’t need any other agent to confirm its own aware presence. #2 Our self is the most obvious and direct knowledge that anyone has. It is the presence of Awareness, which knows itself to be present and aware. Our self is often referred to as Awareness, or simply Presence, or as Consciousness. #3 The first attribute we add to our self is the belief that it resides in and is limited to the body and mind. We believe that experience is divided into two parts: a separate, inside subject that knows, feels, or perceives, and a separate, outside object that is known, felt, or perceived. #4 We must understand that our self is not the body or the mind, but the aware being or Presence that knows or witnesses them. The body and mind are known or experienced, not owned.

All that is known is experiencing, and experiencing is not divided into one part (an inside self) that experiences and another part (an outside object, other, or world) that is experienced. Experiencing is seamless and intimate, made of “knowing” or awareness alone. This intimacy, in which there is no room for selves, objects, or others, is love itself. It lies at the heart of all experience, completely available under all circumstances.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Our self is the most important thing we can know for certain. We know our self through direct experience, and our self knows that it is present and aware through itself alone. It doesn’t need any other agent to confirm its own aware presence. #2 Our self is the most obvious and direct knowledge that anyone has. It is the presence of Awareness, which knows itself to be present and aware. Our self is often referred to as Awareness, or simply Presence, or as Consciousness. #3 The first attribute we add to our self is the belief that it resides in and is limited to the body and mind. We believe that experience is divided into two parts: a separate, inside subject that knows, feels, or perceives, and a separate, outside object that is known, felt, or perceived. #4 We must understand that our self is not the body or the mind, but the aware being or Presence that knows or witnesses them. The body and mind are known or experienced, not owned.

The Ashes of Love features 280 sayings by Rupert Spira, taken from conversations with friends over a three year period. From the Foreword by Monique Proulx: 'This book is a distillation of penetrating statements gleaned from the numerous teachings of Rupert Spira: at times borrowing the musicality of a haiku, the terseness of a pith instruction or the persuasive power of an oration. But no matter its shape, each one bears the treasure of a full teaching ....Rupert Spira is an artist. He sculpts words into condensed forms of pure intelligence to which there is nothing to be added or removed. He sculpts our understanding until it becomes pure light, pure flame. Truth seekers familiar with his teaching will find its essence here: concise, sharp as a diamond, overwhelming with its awesome higher reasoning, whilst bathing us in unconditional love. Others will be struck by the clarity and profundity of Reality as conveyed by this master of Advaita, and illumined by the glimpse of an inner revolution.'

In The Heart of Prayer, Rupert Spira elaborates on the understanding that the peace and happiness we seek can be found in the knowing of our own being. Drawing on the wisdom of Being Aware of Being Aware and Being Myself, this new volume explores another essential aspect of meditation—that which is known as union with God and traditionally approached through prayer. The belief shared by most people that we are a separate person, a tiny part of a vast world, leads us to project the idea of God beyond the world, at an infinite distance from ourselves. As this person, we enter into a devotional relationship with God, we surrender to God. When, through an understanding of our self as unlimited, intimate being, God's being, the sole reality of all that is, we see that we are not separate from God. Our longing for God is found to be God's longing for us. This volume is comprised of guided meditations that Rupert Spira gave during meeting and retreats in 2020-22. Throughout The Heart of Prayer, Spira interlaces his contemplations with his own invocations—as well as teachings, prayers, and poetry gathered from centuries of great works and sacred texts—creating a rich experience of the unity of the perennial non-dual understanding.

A collection of thirty spoken meditations exploring the nature of awareness and non-duality, distilled from live retreats. The meditations guide readers to recognize pure awareness as the ground of all experience, drawing directly on the Advaita Vedanta tradition.

Infinite being shines as the amness of yourself and the isness of all things. The Shining of Being is an invitation to return to your true nature - the intimate, familiar presence that shines in your mind as the knowledge 'I am'. With poetic clarity, Rupert Spira guides you to the still, silent core

You Are the Happiness You Seek, by the luminary teacher and author Rupert Spira, offers a simple and direct presentation of the nondual understanding for spiritual seekers as well as people new to the teaching.