RUPERT SPIRA

You are present as the knower of your experience. You know your thoughts, feelings, images, sensations and perceptions but you are not made out of any of these. You - this open, transparent, aware presence - are inherently free of any resistance just as the room in which your body is now sitting is inherently free of any resistance to whatever may or may not be taking place within it. This absence of resistance is known as peace. It is inherent in your self. It is your self. It is your natural and ever-present condition.

For you nothing is ever lacking. You, aware presence, have already said ‘yes’ to the current situation, otherwise it would not be appearing. This absence of lack is known as happiness. It is inherent in you and has nothing to do with the particular characteristics of the current experience. Happiness is causeless, independent of circumstances. It is your essential nature but is sometimes veiled by the thought that resists the current situation and seeks to replace it by one of its own imagining. This happiness is not a state of the body or mind, although it affects them. It resides at the heart of all experience.

You intimately pervade all appearances just as a screen intimately pervades all the documents and images that appear on it. There is no distance or separation between you and any appearance nor any motive to move away from it. All motives to move away are for thinking, not for you. This unconditional intimacy is known as love. It is the natural condition of all experience, not the condition of just one or two special relationships.

All that the imaginary self has ever truly longed for – peace, happiness and love - is present right now, here, shining at the heart of this and every experience, simply waiting to be recognized – it is your very own being. It is you.

With the dissolution of the belief that what we are is a separate, limited, located Consciousness and of the feelings in the body with which it is substantiated, the imaginary separate entity comes to an end and happiness, peace and love are re-established.

Rupert SpiraFrom an early age Rupert was deeply interested in the nature of Reality. For twenty years he studied the teachings of Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Shankaracharya, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, twelve years ago. Francis introduced Rupert to the teaching of Jean Klein, Parmenides, Wei Wu Wei and Atmananda Krishnamenon and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience.

Rupert’s first book, "The Transparency of Things," subtitled "Contemplating the Nature of Experience," was published last year by Non-Duality Press. He is presently working on his second book, "Presence." www.rupertspira.com